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"Go abroad upon the paths of Nature; 
And when all its voices whisper, and its silent things 
Are breathing the deep beauty o£ the world, 
Kneel at its ample altar." 

)) The Adirondacks may not have been the in- 
v^ -^ spiration of these lines, but there is no spot 
where the voices of Nature whisper in sweeter cadence, 
or with more enticing or bewitching harmony of tone. 

Silence and solitude appeal to most of us with a voice 
that is almost human. In it we recognize the vast domain 
of the world of matter, the sense of infinity lays hold of 
us, and a responsive chord goes out from our inmost soul, 
proclaiming in indisputable emotions our kinship with 
Nature. It is a dull soul which does not awaken to the 
glories of a magnificent sunset, or w^hich is not stirred 
by the majesty of tow-ering mountains, the deep solitude 
and stillness of the forest, or the dashing of the mighty 
waves of the sea upon the beach. Nowhere is Nature's 
" ample altar" more beautifully raised than in the great 




" He may pitrh his camp on the edge of 
some crystal lake.'' 



Stretches of the North Woods. It is there 
that one maj^ pitch his camp on the edge 
cf some crystal lake, amid ,^ 

the stately monarchs of the 
forest, and enjoy for 
weeks at a time unbroken 
communion with Nature, 
undisturbed by the 
noise and strident calls 
of the work-a-day 
world. He may lay 
aside, as absolutely 
as if he were in 
another sphere, the 
cares and worries 
of busy commerce 
and the perplexi- 
ties and annoy- 
ances of business. 
The bustle of the 
busy marts of trade 
may be forgotten, and he 
may grow strong and 
hearty, replenishing his 
wasting vitality with 
Nature's choicest and surest remedies. 
He may rest nights on a comfortable 
and sweet-scented couch made of fra- 
grant balsam boughs, and be lulled to 
sleep by the wind humming its wordless 
songs through the feathery branches of 
the pines, to awaken full of renewed 
vigor to enjoy the luxury of a plunge in 
the cold water of the lake. He may 
partake of enviable meals — a tender bit 
of venison and a pan of brook trout, sup- 
plemented by flapjacks and maple syrup 
— all cooked a la Adirondack by one of 
the guides, who has a "knack," which 
when coupled with the surroundings 
brings out an appetite of which only a 
camper knows the length and breadth. 
After the morning meal is over the work 
or play of the day may begin. 
, If the wind and sky are right 
he may slip off with one of 
the guides to a neigh- 
boring pond, where ho 
knows of a " sly 




' Where iiiouiiluiii stroaius babbliug How." 



hole" in 
which 
the ever 
wary brook trout may be 
tempted to rise for the fly, 
or he may troll in hope 
of getting one of the big lake trout, 
which are so plentiful, but which after 
the ist of July are so illusive and sly. If 
he prefers, he may take his shotgun and 
pick up a few pheasants among the wood- 
ed patches which skirt the edge of every 
lake. If the camp has been properly 
located, he may nap or read in hammocks 
swung under the grand old monarchs 
of the woods and on the very edge of the 
clear, cool pond, whose surface, so closeh' 
protected from the winds by its bounda- 
ries of forest, will scarcely show more than 
a ripple on its placid bosom for days at 
a time. All these things, and many 
more too, may he enjoy. For if he is 
an ardent sportsman there is the excite- 
ment of the chase, when the deep bay- 
ing of the hounds echoes and re-echoes 
against the mountain-sides — when it al- 
most dies away as the noble buck rushes 
down into the valley over the range, 
only to spring into life and vigor 
again as he breaks across the nearest 
summit with the greedy pack in full 
cry at his heels. Evening comes 
early in these North Woods, as the 
mountains form a wall for the sun to 
hide behind as it sinks in the west, 

* * * "dying like a cloven king 
In his own blood ; the while the distant moon. 
Like a fair prophetess, whom he has wronged, 
Leans eager forward, with most liungry eyes. 
Watching him bleed to death, and, as he faints, 
She brightens and dilates ; revenge comp'ete. 
She walks in lonely triumph throuo-h the 
night." 

It is then that the camp fire with its 
huge logs piled high will blaze with 



genial warmth. And where is the man 
or woman who, having once camped in 
the great North Woods, can efface the 
memories of those peaceful nights. As 
Murray says : " The memory is so truly a 
mirror that we may see as in a glass the 
trees and shores of lovely lakes, the 
wooded islands around which the waves 
run caressingly, beaches of glistening 
sand and ranges of lofty mountains." We 



ing notes of the songs whose melody 
drifted from the circle round the fire out 
over the tranquil and shadowy bosom of 
the lake. Sweet memories these, and 
the soul which does not beat responsive to 
their awakenings is dead indeed. 

Picture in your mind a vast area whose 
surface is broken by numberless and 
mostly nameless mountains, clothed to 
their well-molded summits with the 




may also see the cabins of bark, and 
tents made homelike, the camp-fires that 
crackle and blaze and send their twisting 
tongues of flames high up toward the 
swaying branches which shut out from 
view the starry firmament above. We 
may see too the forms and faces of those 
who have been our companions in forest 
life and wanderings. We hear again in 
mellowed tones the happy sounds of mer- 
riment and frolic, and listen to the echo- 



the forms nml lai'cs .>t tl wh.i have been our ouiriiiaiu.^ii^ 

in forest life and wanderinfrs." 

towering and stately pine and spruce. 
Imagine among these noble hills coimt- 
less lakes of water so translucent as to be 
almost cr3^stal, and into which the eye 
may penetrate to almost any depth ; and 
on whose surface are reflected, as in a 
mirror, the darkened, graceful shadows of 
the mountain slopes. Imagine an atmos- 
phere fragrant with the invigorating odor 
of the health-giving balsam, and so light 
and pure that the lungs seem suddenly 



to have increased to double their power, 
while one's vitality has taken on a re- 
newed and strengthened life. Surround 
all of this with a framework of romance 
and the gentle grace of nature, and you 
have the Adirondacks. 

Any one who imagines that America is 
lacking in that element of picturesque- 
ness which attracts tens of thousands of 





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is an atmosphere about their grassy 
streets which reminds one of Goldsmith's 
" Sweet Auburn;" and their architecture, 
if not strikingly original, is of that rough 
simplicit)' so pleasing to the eye, and only 
the man who has travelled so much as to 
be possessed of the spirit of e/una' can re- 
sist the dreamy beauties of these little 
hamlets on the hillsides. 

It is scarcely more than 
a generation ago that the 
Adirondacks were known 
only by name, and their 
mountains, their lakes, and 
beautiful valleys were 
familiar but to the In- 
dians, the trappers, and 
the few more hardy sports- 
m e n who occasionally 
penetrated their depths. 
In these days, however, 
ill their attractive por- 
tions have been brought 
within easy access by the 
luxurious trains of the 
I )elaware and Hudson 
Railroad and its connec- 
t i o n s, the Adirondack 
Railroad, the Chateau- 
Railroad, 



gay 



and the 



Americans to Europe 
every summer, can 
never have penetrated 
this beautiful Adiron- 
dack region. Here are 
combined all the charm- 
ing scenic effects of 
Switzerland — a little less 
severe, perhaps, but all 
the more restful to the 
eye ; here are found all 
the attractions of the 
lake region of Italy, for 
Como and Maggiore are 
no more lovely than 
Placid and Mirror. 
There is, to be sure, no 
Jungfrau or Matterhorn 
in the North Woods of 
the Empire State, but 
there is noble old White 
Face and Marcy, which, amid their sur- 
roundings, are as beautiful. There may 
be, perhaps, an eletnent of novelty lack- 
ing in the Adirondack villages — such 
as pervades the hillside villages of Swit- 
zerland — they may be commonplace, but 
they are American, and add their quota 
of picturesqueness to the scene. There 




Wheu the guides and hunters retiii ii to tainp to vouut 
the trophies of the chase." 

Champlain Transportation Co. steamers. 
This great region, which is now to the East 
what the Yellowstone and Yosemite are 
to the West, is bounded by Lake George 
and Lake Champlain on the east, the St. 
Lawrence on the northwest, extending 
on the north to Canada, and on the south 
nearly to the Mohawk River. The moun- 



tains rise 
from an 
elevated 
plat eau 
of 15,000 
square 
miles, in 




" Where one may choose 
'twixt lake and stream." 



itself nearly 
2,000 feet 
above the 
level of the sea. There are to be seen 
five distinct and well-defined parallel 
ranges running from southwest to north- 
east, and terminating on the eastern side 
in the rugged promontories which mark 
the western shore of Lake Champlain. 
The western range, called sometimes the 
Adirondacks and sometimes the Clinton, 
begins at the pass of Little Falls upon the 
Mohawk River, and stretches across the 
wilderness to the bold Trempleau 
Point at Port Kent on Lake Cham- 
plain. 

Mount Marcy, called by the In- 
dians Tahawus, meaning " sky 
piercer," and the loftiest summit of 
the Adirondack region, is 5,337 
feet high, while ]\Iounts Seward, 
Mclntyre, and White Face, neigh- 
boring summits of Marcy, all ex- 
ceed 5,000 feet. Recent surveys 
tell t:s that there are in the entire 



region over 500 distinct mountains, many 
>f them as yet unnamed upon the maps of 
the region, but all massive and majestic 
in their proportions, and as a whole pre- 
senting one of the most magnificent scenic 
panoramas to be found in the world. 
The Adirondack wilderness may be di- 
vided into three 
general divisions 
or systems, which 
taken collectively 
entertain the 
' great bulk of visit- 
' ors, and are rep- 
resentatives of the 
whole, namely, the 
Saranac and St. 
Regis waters of 
Franklin county, 
whose natural 
gateway is Platts- 
burg and Port 
Kent on Lake 
Champlain; the 
mountain region 
Keene, North Elba, and 
Lake Placid, in Essex County, 
with entrance at Westport on 
Lake Champlain ; and the 
Loon, Schroon, Blue Mountain, 
and Raquette Lakes country, 
with entrance from Saratoga 
over the Adirondack Railroad. 
Of these sections, the first men- 
tioned has become the more widely 
celebrated as a region where fash- 
ion and fishing are admirablj^ blended, 
and has its patrons who are looked for as 
regularly as the seasons. The second is 
perhaps a little less known, but its 
grand old mountains and winsome valleys 
have become world-renowned through 
the productions of great painters. The 
.Schroon Lake region is not so wild but ex- 
ceedingly popular. While possessing 
something of the characteristics of the 
others, each section has its own individ- 
ual attraction, and while connected by 
natural highways and waterways over 
which the nomad often goes, they still. 




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back to camp. 



to a considerable extent, retain their 
individuality, and each is complete and 
sufficient unto itself. Keene Valley is a 
favored resort 
with artists and > — 



ideal attractions of the Adirondack moun- 
tains as a winter health and pleasure re- 
sort have come into prominence, although 
with summer visit- 




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and 



the 
the 



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of 
t 

Raquette Lake 
most elaborate, 
Upper Saranac the great- 
est number of, private 
camps occupied during the season. At 
intervals throughout the entire wilder- 
ness, all waiting with doors open to re- 
ceive strangers, are places of entertain- 
ment, from the well-appointed hotel on 
the border to the rude log-house and open 
camp of the interior, the consideration 
being from S5 per week up to $3 to $5 
per day. Freedom from rough and vi- 
cious characters is a peculiarity of the 
Adirondack region. Evil finds nothing- 
congenial under its bright skies and in 
its pure, bracing atmosphere. Customs 
that obtain at other resorts are not held 
binding here. The fact of actual presence 
is accepted as a guaranty of the possession 
of those mutual sympathies and quali- 
fications which, here at least, make the 
whole world kin, and make it possible 
for gentlemen to wear outing shirts and 
old hats, and ladies to travel without male 
escort from one end of the wilderness to 
the other. It is no uncommon thing for 
parties of ladies to make the tour of the 
woods accompanied only by the neces- 
sary complement of guides to furnish 
motive power, spending day after day in 
their boat and at night reaching one step 
farther in the extended system of hotels. 
It is but quite recently that the many 



ors the 

po p u- 

larity 

of this winsome region is 

widespread and supreme. 

The great thoroughfare 
over which the travel into 
the Adirondacks goes is the Delaware 
and Hiidson Railroad. Albany, N. Y. , is 
its central point, and in this city are 
located its general offices. From here 
it stretches through a beautiful region 
southwest to Binghamton, N. Y. , and 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and north through 
Saratoga and up past Lakes George and 
Champlain to the northern limits of the 
United vStates, its through trains running 
to Montreal. At Saratoga it connects 
with the Adirondack Railroad, which 
reacnes a large portion of the North 
Woods, and at Plattsburg with the Cha- 
teaugay Railroad for many principal 
points in the Adirondacks. At Westport 
it connects with the excellent system of 
stage lines covering the central section. 
At Caldwell on Lake George and Fort 
Ticonderoga and Plattsburg on Lake 
Champlain it connects with the beautiful 
steamers of the Champlain Transporta- 
tion Company and the Lake George 
Steamboat Company, the tickets of the 
rail and boat lines being interchangeable. 
The city of Albany, as has been said, 
is the central point in this great system, 
and is not only one of the oldest cities of 
America in point of settlement but one of 
the most attractive. 



The Hotel Kenmore, at Albany, of 
which Mr. H. J. Rockwell is proprietor 
and Mr. F. W. Rockwell manasjer. is a 





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of these 
f o u n d 
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" The Kenmore is beautifully locatf d in the 1 1 nti t of AJbajiy's business 
district, and ii veiy popular." 

thoroughly modern house in all that that 
word implies. It is beautifully located in 
the very centie of Albany on the princi- 
pal retail thoroughfare, and convenient 
to the State Capitol and the new depot. 
The Kenmore's wide popularity is due 
in no small degree to its liberal manage- 
ment, which has expended large sums of 
money in equipping the hotise with all 
appliances and luxuries which add to the 
comfort or convenience of guests. This 
house is one of the most thoroughly pro- 
tected against fire in the State of New 
York, and is the rendezvous for the politi- 
cal as well as the fashionable and com- 
mercial travelling public. 

The table at the Kenmore is not only 
abundantly but almost prodigally sup- 
plied with all the substantials and 
delicacies of the season, and all of its 
rooms, both for public and pri- 
vate use, are furnished in keep- 
ing with the high standard of the 
house. Those who appreciate 
the comforts of a good hotel 
will find them exemplified in the 
Kenmore. 

Stanwix Hall, of Albany, of 
which Mr. C. Quackenbush is pro- 
prietor, is known the length and 
breadth of the country. It is 
one of the most comfortably 
equipped hotels in the State, and 
is conducted on both the Ameri- 
can and European plans. It 
is the desire of the manage- 



ment in all matters to satisfy the most 
exacting taste, and during the past two 
years the house has been thoroughly reno- 
vated and very many im- 
provements have been 
made in order to more 
fully carry out this de- 
sire. New plumbing has 
been put in throughout 
the entire house, and 
an extensive and costly 
system of filtering the 
entire water-supply of 
the house has been intro- 
duced. Stanwix Hall is 
the nearest of any of the 
first-class hotels to the 
depots and steamboat 
landings, and enjoys 
a very large patronage. 
The table at Stan- 
wix Hall is maintained 
at the highest point of 
excellence, and special 
attention is paid to this 
feature of the house. 
There is so much of interest to see in 
the capital of the Empire State that few 
people pass through without spending at 
least a short time in visiting those points 
of interest. Tourists going from New 
York, the West, or from any of the 
New England points to the Adirondacks 
pass through Albany, and a large number 




will be 
registered 




■ Stanw ix Hall at .\lbauy is one ot the i 



taL)l> equipped hotels.' 




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That portion 
of the D. & H. 
which, leaving 
Albany, runs 
southwest t o 
Bingh am t o n, 
branching a t 
Nineveh and 
continuing to 
Wilkes- Barre, 
through Car- 
bondale, passes 
through one of 
the most d e- 
lightfully pic- 
turesque r e - 
gions in the 
eastern coun- 
try. There are 
attractive vil- 
lages in which 
are exemplified 
the better 
phases of our 
American rural 
life, and there 
are many spots 
where Nature seems 
to have made a spe- 
cial effort to cluster at- 
tractive bits of scener}'. 
Wilkes-Barre. the south- 
western terminus of this 
division, is the commercial centre of 
the great anthracite coal region of 
the Wyoming Valley. This town 
bears the joint name of two dis- 
tinguished Englishmen, John Wilkes and William 




who prior to the war of the Revolution 
defended in Parliament the rights of the 
American colonists. Nearly a half hun- 
dred extensive coal-mines are located in 
the immediate neighborhood of Wilkes- 
Barre, and the amount of coal tonnage 
of the city runs into figures which are 
very impressive in mag- 
"] nitude. Upon this line 
of the Delaware and 
Hudson Railroad is also 
u ^ I located the cities of 

I'ittston and Scranton, 
I lie former being at the 
junction of the Susque- 
lianna and Lackawanna 
rivers, and, like Wilkes- 
r.arre, devoted to coal 
interests. 

Scranton 
has enjoyed 
the distinc- 
tion of hav- 
i n g been 
called at va- 
rious peri- 
ods by more 
names than 
any other 
town in 
the United 
States. But 
,: n o t w i t h - 
. „ \j.,, standing, it 
""""" has had 

many years of pros- 
p e r o u s existence 
and is widely and 
justlycelebrated be- 
cause of its enor- 
mous iron - works, 
rolling mills, blast 
furnaces, and mines 
and manufacturing 
interests. 



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At 
Carbon- 
dale are 
located the 
very exten- 
. '; sive car and ma- 

chine shops of the D. & H. 
It is also the terminus of the Gravity Rail- 
road, which belongs to the same S3'stem. 
In describing this unique railroad the 
author of " Wonders and Curiosities of 
the Railway" says : " It lies among the 
picturesque Moosic Mountains, two thou- 
sand feet above the sea. The railroad 
fills up a gap seventeen miles long sepa- 
rating the mines from the mountain ter- 
minus of the canal. The hilly nature of 
the region determined the character ot 
the railway. It consists of twenty in- 
clined planes from one to four miles in 
length. From the summit to CarbondaK- 
there is an uninterrupted descent, down 
which the cars rush at a speed of sixty 
miles an hour. An enormous fan at the 
Summit's engine-house regulates the rate 
of descent by atmospheric pressure. In 
1877 the first passenger cars were put on 
the road, to the great enjoyment of visi- 
tors and citizens. The ride is one of the 
most peculiar and exhilarating in the 
world. You are reminded of the magical 
car of the subterranean Egyptian temple 
described by Tom Moore in his 'Epicu- 
rean.' Here \'ou are travelling for miles 
up hill and down, through beautiful scen- 



ery, and no visible agency to propel you. 
East and south the landscape stretches 
away for sixty miles; at the Shepherd's 
Crook you whirl around the summit of a 
gorge four hundred feet in depth, with a 
series of cataracts leaping down three 
hundred feet among the hemlocks, and 
the valley of the Lackawanna, spotted 
with towns and farms, stretching out far 
and wide in the distance. There is no 
dust, no smoke, no cinders, no whistle, 
no intrusive official; you only feel that 
some gigantic piece of clockwork is 
drawing you smoothly onward, and you 
lie back in your seat in tranquil enjoy- 
ment, and yield yourself to the novel il- 
lusion of magical power." A large 
amount of money is being spent in im- 
proving a natural park at Fairview, the 
lii--l]c'Sl point on tlie line. 




itv KailioaU is an iuspiratiyn." 



About ten miles to the east of Bing- 
hamton, at Sanitaria Springs, N. Y., on 
the D. & H., is located the new Sanitarium 
and Hydrotherapium, one of the largest, 
best-equipped, and complete institutions 
of its class in the United States, if not in 
the world. Dr. S. Andral Kilmer, M.D., 
who is so extensively known as a suc- 



vice. Taking the Sanitarium as a whole, 
it is a model. The peculiar health-giving 
qualities of its waters, added to its de- 
lightful location among the Blue Hill 
Tunnel Ranges, 2,300 feet above the sea, 
the very competent medical attendants, 
reinforced by the wealth of Dr. Kilmer, 
who has spared no amount of money, have 








rile new Sanitarium and Hydrotherapiuin at Sanitaria Sj.i 
of its kind in America." 



f tlie largest institutions 



cessful physician in the treatment of 
chronic diseases, has expended enormous 
sums of money in the development of 
this enterprise, and the buildings are 
thoroughly equipped with the best sys- 
tems of sanitation and ventilation. The 
location of the Sanitarium is peculiarly 
beautiful, the various structures being 
scattered about the hillside, and each, 
having been recently erected, is pos- 
sessed of attractive architectural appear- 
ance. There are at the Sanitarium 
several mineral springs, one of which 
is sulpho-phosphate, the only spring of 
its kind in the world. Its medicinal prop- 
erties are producing marvellous and bene- 
ficial results ; and many obstinate cases 
of diseases, which have failed to respond 
to treatment in any other locality, have 
been treated here, where a corps of most 
efficient physicians are in daily contact 
with the patients. The buildings include 
everything which can be devised for the 
comfort and health of the guests and 
patients. They are equipped with elec- 
tric lights, elevators, steam heat, and 
electric bells. All kinds of baths, sul- 
phur, Turkish, Russian, pine needle, 
hemlock, balsam, electric, and Dr. Kil- 
mer's new herbal and magnetic baths 
are administered under competent ad- 



made it known the length and breadth 
of the land. 

The Sanitaria and Hydrotherapium do 
not depend in their treatment solely on 
the uses, internally and externally, of 
waters, but comprehend a careful regu- 
lation of daily diet, prescribed recreation, 
rest, and whatever can be safely done by 
hygiene and medicine; nor does it limit 
itself to any one school of practice, but 
employs all known remedial agents, 
preferring Nature's remedies. It is con- 
ducted in winter and summer as a dis- 
tinctively health hydrotJio-apiuni, alike 
homeful to all, whether the invalid wife 
or daughter of the millionaire or artisan. 

On this division of the D. & H., and 
about 40 miles from Albany, is the won- 
derful Howe's Cave, the greatest in the 
world after the Mammoth Cave of Ken- 
tucky. It is full of weird attractions, 
and it is possible to travel over several 
miles of paths within it and not exhaust 
all its attractions. 

Cooperstown, on Otsego Lake ; Sharon 
Springs, the Baden-Baden of America; 
Unadilla, and many other charming re- 
sorts are on the line of the D. & H. 
between Albany and Binghamton. Full 
information may be had of the Passenger 
Department of the D. & H. at Albany. 



The scenery of the valley of the Upper 
Hudson between Troy and Saratoga is 
bordered easterly by the distant range 
of the Green Mountains and a wide fore- 
ground of undulating hills. Westerly a 
continuity of high land limits the view 



of the open country be- 
The landscape along the 
dispreads itself through 
meadows, arable fields, 
short stretches 
of woodland. 
As far as Me- 
chanicville, the 
Rensselaer and 
Saratoga Rail- 



y o n d . 

Hudson 

brooky 

and 



Round Lake, three miles in circumfer- 
ence, is picturesquely environed by 
gently sloping hills, woody knolls, and 
grassy meadows. Long Lake, four miles 
westward, disembogues by an outlet into 
Round Lake, which discharges its water 
through Anthony's Kill into the Hudson, 
seven miles eastward. 

The grounds of the Round Lake Asso- 
ciation, about two hundred acres of land, 
lying west of the lake, are in 
, the town of 




road runs between 
the Cham plain 
Canal and the 
Hudson. North of the village, the road, 
b}' a reverse curve like the letter S, 
bends westwardly around the south side 
of Round Lake, and passing the station 
extends northwesterly to Ballston Spa. 



• Malta, in 
\ Saratoga 
\ County, New 
) York, n i n e- 
r t e e n miles 
^ from T r o 3^ 
seven from 
Mechanicville, 
six from Balls- 
ton Spa, and 
thirteen from Sara- 
toga Springs on the 
Delaware and Hud- 
son Railroad The highway on 
iooiation the east side of the grounds runs 
through Maltaville, a mile north- 
east of them, and through Jonesville. 
three miles southwestward. 

The sun-fiecked depths of the cottage- 
clustered wood are entered by broad 
avenues diverging from the gateways at 




'Where tlie Hudson dispieail 

itself tluoutrh brooky 

meadows." 



the passenger station on the east side of 
the railroad. Narrow lawns brightly 
bedded with flowers border these ap- 
proaches and the paths extending from 
them. Beyond the prettily-built sum- 
mer homes along the west side of the 
majestic grove appear others of varied 
architecture, embowered by the branches 
of the tall trees surrounding them. 
In the central part of this sylvan 
retreat is a large pavilion with 
thousands of sittings for the people 
attending the religious meetings, 
summer schools, Sunday-school 
assemblies, lectures, oratorios, ex- 
hibitions, and concerts held there 
in the summer. Conspicuously 
fronting the north lawn is the ad- 
mirably arranged and finely fur- 
nished Hotel Wentworth. Farther 
northward, in a leafy recess of 
great oaksand fragrantevergreens, 
is the handsomely built Griffin In- 
stitute, which, in all its elaborate 
features, fitly expresses the nn- 
stinted generosity of the highly 
esteemed president of the Round Lake 
Association. East of the wood, on 
a rise of ground commanding a wide 
prospect of the suiTounding country and 
an extended view of the lake, is 
'^'^ x~ ,, the George 




seum of Art and Archaeology, a 
finely proportioned structure, given 
the association by its generous treas- 
urer. Garnsey Hall, on Whitfield 
Avenue, and Kennedy Hall, on Peck 
Avenue, are also attractive edifices, 
gifts of the two benevolent women 
whose names the well-planned build- 
ings bear. Alumni Hall, on Whitfield 
Avenue, is also a noticeable structure. 
A thorough system of sewerage is 
one of the argtiments for the healthful- 
ness of Round Lake Grounds. Added 
to this are the sparkling springs and 
rills which come from the sandhills 
on the west, furnishing the finest of 
cool pure water. All three augur well 
for the growing popularity of the place 
as a quiet, safe, moral, and intellectual 
resort. There are now planted here on 
a permanent basis the Round Lake Acad- 
emy, a yearly institute ; Round Lake Sum- 
mer Musical Festival ; Round Lake Min- 
isters' Institute; Sunday-School Assem- 
bly; and Conference Camp-Meeting. 
Last, but not least, was the planting here 




■ Every foot of the shore of Round Lake is attractive." 



'And the buildings ha \.' Ir.r,, ivrll ;il.,i I |..i il -■- ' 

of the Eastern New York Summer School 
for Teachers, under a corps of efficient 
directors, at the head of which is Prof. 
A. Falconer, of Waterford, N. Y. 

There are at Round Lake some four 
hundred attractive and comfortable cot- 
tages and houses, and several pleasant 
hotels and boarding-houses, besides the 
above-mentioned Hotel Wentworth, and 
many people spend the entire summer 
season there, as at Round Lake there are 
found so many diversified pleasures. 

Those desiring fuller or more complete 
information regarding the attractions of 
Round Lake and its work will receive 
it, and also a free journal, by addressing 
the Superintendent's Office, at Round 
Lake, Saratoga Co., New York. 



Amid all the rivalry of the innumera- 
ble places clamoring for popularity as 
summer resorts, regardless of the ever- 
changing fickleness of the public which 
has by turns stamped its seal of approval, 
now on one place and again on the other, 
fair Saratoga has reigned supreme as 
Queen of America's summer resorts. 

All the 
others 
have 
been 
and 



world. 




must con- 
tinue to be 
compared to 
her, and be con- 
tent with the 
second place. 
She has fairly 
won and de- 



•■ None ot the .springs at Saratoga i.s mor 
known than the Vichy." 



servedly holds the title of the most popu- 
lar and representative resort. For about 
Saratoga are clustered historical memo- 
ries leading up to the establishment of 
American independence, as enduring as 
time, and these have been supplemented 
in more recent years by associations 
which have marked it as a summer capi- 
tal where one is sure to find in 
the fullest degree a representa- 
tion of the leading circles of 
wealth and refinement. To- 
day Saratoga is one of the most 
delightful little cities on the 
American continent, with a pop- 
ulation all its own of alDOUt 
12,000 and a summer population 
of 60,000 or more. It is located 
in the midst of the beautiful 
upper Hudson country, and in 
every direction run well-graded 
boulevards. The springs are 
among the natural curiosities 
of the world, and there are 
as many as twenty -eight within 
the limits of the city of Sara- 
toga, all easily accessible from the hotels 
and residential districts. 

Of all the springs which have made 
Saratoga famous, none has a wider or 
greater reputation than the Saratoga 
Vichy, which is a veritable geyser, the 
pressure of the natural carbonic acid gas 
being so strong that it forces the highly 



charged mineral water out and throws it 
several feet into the air. The water 
from this celebrated spring is not saline 
but alkaline, and it is, therefore, exceed- 
ingly beneficial. The large quantity of 
bicarbonate of soda contained in it makes 
it of very great value in counteracting 
the acidity of the stomach and the blood. 
Its power of strengthening the digestive 
function and in eliminating the stubborn 
and dangerous diseases of the depurative 
organs is very great. Its value as a 
therapeutic agent is very well known, 
and it is sold throughout the civilized 
The appliances for bottling the 
water at the spring, just as it 
flows from the rock, are such as 
to preserve all of its natural car- 
bonic acid gas, which gives it the 
same sparkling effervescence and 
delicious taste, even after it has 
been bottled for long periods. 
The Saratoga Vichy is a delicious 
beverage, refreshing and slightly 
stimulating, and its popularit}- is 
exceedingl}^ great, not only as 
a pleasant table water, but a 
valuable remedy. 
American House at Saratoga is 
situated on Broadway, the main boule- 
vard of the city, between the Grand 
Union and United States hotels, and its 
wide piazzas command opportunities for 
viewing the life and gayety of this cele- 
brated resort. It is within two minutes' 
walk of the principal springs and Con- 



«j,U-ly 



The 




The Anieiican at Saratoga is a thoioughiy wuU-ai.pumlud houst-.' 

gress Springs Park. The American is a 
thoroughly well-appointed house, excel- 
lently managed, and offers to visitors 
every attraction and comfort that can 
be found anywhere. The present season 
is its fifteenth, and throughout its entire 
existence it has maintained its present 
great popularity. 




•■ The United States Hotel at Saratoga Springs whicli is so far 

The United States Hotel at Saratoga 
Springs is so far-famed and so thoroughly 
popular that it hardly seems pos- 
sible to say anything new regard- 
ing it. It is one of the institu- 
tions of America. Within its 
walls gather each year thousands 
of the representatives of the 
world of fashion, wealth, and 
refinement. It is in itself a great 
social capital, and is on a scale 
so grand that its very magnitude 
is impressive. Within a court 
formed by three sides of the hotel 
is one of the loveliest private 
gardens in America, filled with 
beautiful fountains, the rarest of 
shrubs, and no more brilliant 
scene is to be found anywhere 
that is here presented each even- 
ing, when the park and the sur- 
rounding piazzas are thronged 
with the gay concourse of guests. "Fairy iike gai 
The finest music is rendered morning, 
afternoon, and evening on the broad por- 



ches, and even a 
glimpse of the bril- 
liant scenes for 
which the United 
States Hotel is 
famous will long 
linger in the mind. 
Its very immen- 
sity is a charm in 
itself, for there is 
in the great cor- 
ridors, parlors, and 
dining rooms a 
sense of freedom 
from all restraint. 
It is like roaming 
about a great baro- 
nial palace, your- 
self a prince, with 

famed and popular." vistaS thrOUgh the 

hallways and from the windows on the 
one side of fairy-like gardens, with glis- 





dens, with glisteunig fountains, and air fragrant with tlie verdure.' 



tening fountains, and the air fragrant with 
the verdure, and on the other, the gay 
boulevards of the city of Saratoga, alive 
with the handsome equipages and trap- 
pings of fashion and wealth. The cuisine 
of the United States is to the uninitiated a 
marvel, and to those accustomed to all the 
good things of life a joy and satisfaction. 

The markets of New York are drawn 
upon heavily each day for all the luxu- 
ries and delicacies of the season, and the 
fertile country about Saratoga for vege- 
tables and the dairy products for which 
this region is famous. 

This hotel is one of the most perfecth' 
appointed and beautiful in the world, and 
the visitor who spends a day, a month, or a 
season within its hospitable portals will 
ever recur with pleasure to the experience. 



Its spacious parlors with handsome furnishings 



There is no one summer resort in 
America where the names of the promi- 
nent hotels are more indissohtblv associ- 



sun has left it in grateful shade, or the 
reflected evening lights from the hotel 
have added their brilliancv to the scene. 




" CoiiKiess Hall is one of tlie pieat hostelries at Saratoga Springs, w liose 
name and fame are world-wide." 



ated with that of the town than in the 
case of Saratoga, for, take it where you 
will, whoever knows of Saratoga knows 
of its great hostelries. Congress Hall, 
one of the most famous and popular of 
the large number located at Saratoga 
Springs, was built shortly after the war, 
and occupies almost the entire square 
bounded by Broadway, East Congress, 
Spring, and Putnam streets. Its location 
is in the very heart of the fashionable 
part of Saratoga, and its great piazzas 
along the Broadway front are 250 feet 
in length, 20 feet wide, and at any hour 
of the day are gay with the wealth and 
fashion which gives Saratoga its promi- 
nence over any other resort in the United 
States. From the Broadway frontage 
there are two wings, 300 feet long, ex- 
tending to Putnam Street, and between 
them a beautiful garden plot, CMed with 
beautiful flowers and shrubbery and 
shade-trees. Wide porches surround 
this lovely park, and every morning and 
afternoon one of the largest bands, lo- 
cated in a central position, renders 
selections of the best class of music. 
Few more delightful spots could be 
found in which to pass an hour than in 
this beautiful park when the afternoon 



There are, of course, to be found in Con- 
gress Hall all of the elegant and modern 
appointments which even the most ex- 
acting may require. Its beautiful dining 
rooms, halls, and parlors are models of 
their kind, and its culinary department 
is amply provided for the thousand 
guests which Congress Hall can accom- 
modate. The most careful attention has 
been paid to the furnishing of the house, 
and its bedchambers and public rooms 
are models of comfort and luxurv. 




Tile Floral Festival at Saratoga is its most attractive fete." 



Worden's Hotel at Saratoga Springs is 
an all-the-year-round house, and is one 
of those comfortable, delightful places 




"The VVordeu ac hariitoga SiJi-iuKf is uu all-the-\ear-rouii(i 
house." 

where one may be certain of securing 
excellent accommodations. While the 
fame of Saratoga rests upon its being 
a summer resort, it is in fact one of the 
most delightful places to go in the winter 
season, and Worden's Hotel not only has 
a full complement of summer guests, but, 
after the great summer throngs have 
gone, maintains its popularity with those 
who are familiar with Saratoga when it 
is mantled with snow and when winter 
sports rule the day. Mr. W. W. Worden, 
the proprietor, is thoroughly alert to all 
that is modern in hotel-keeping, and this 
accounts in a large measure for the popu- 
larity of his house. 

The Schroon Lake region and that be- 
yond is the most accessible of any, and 
is as well one of the most beautiful in 
the North Woods. Schroon Lake is itself 
the largest lake in the Adirondacks, and 
is long, narrow, and crooked. It is en- 
tirely surrounded by graceful and lofty 
mountain peaks, which give it a wild and 
most impressive environment. Because 
it is so easily reached by rail and 
stage, many people of wealth and 
taste have fringed its picturesque 
shores with summer houses; and 
these people, as well as many 
others who are not so fortunate 
as to possess their own cottages 
or camps, come season after * 
season to find that time does not 
wither nor custom stale the charm 
of its blue waters, the spicy, in- 
vigorating fragrance of its air, or 
its delicious restfulness. 

The attractions of Schroon 
Lake from the fisherman's point 
of view are tempting. It has 
been well stocked witn gamey 
lake trout, and many beautiful specimens 
of this delicious fish are caught each 
season. Black bass and pickerel are also 



found plentifully, while the near-by 
ponds and streams and lesser lakes are 
filled with brook trout. 

Schroon Lake and its surrounding- 
region is reached by the Adirondack R. R. , 
which, starting from the same station at 
which the Delaware and Hudson Railroad 
leaves its passengers in Saratoga, pursues 
a course a little west of north for sixty 
miles, to North Creek. Tourists going 
to Schroon Lake are met at Riverside 
Station and conveyed by comfortable 
stages, over winding roads through magni- 
ficent pine groves, to Pottersville, seven 
miles away, at which place they embark 
on the steamer, which proceeds up the 
lake, touching at intermediate points, to 
Schroon Lake Village, situated at the 
northern extremity of the lake. It is 
here that most of the hotels are located. 

The village faces directly south, and 
is protected on the north by high moun- 
tains. This situation gives it an un- 
commonly moderate temperature for 
such a latitude, and makes it a delight- 
ful place in which to tarry after the 
season has closed at other less favorably 
located spots in the mountains. 

There are many beautiful drives in the 
Schroon Lake region, the favorite routes 
being to Paradox Lake, where excellent 
trout dinners are served, and to Pyramid 
Lake and Brant's Lake. Among other 
points worthy a visit is the old staging 
house, nine miles north of Schroon Lake, 
one of the first houses built in the moun- 
tains, and situated on the old post road 
from Albany to Montreal. From River- 
side, where tourists leave the railway, 
a stage also runs to Chestertown, a dis- 
tance of six miles. Schroon, Brant, 
Friend, and Loon Lakes are all within 




"Sehroon Lake is the largest of (ill those in the Adirondnclc reKion." 

a radius of five miles of Chestertown. 
and are accessible by good roads through 
an interesting region. 





'• The Club at Brant Lake is one of the attractive features of thi; 
beautiful spot." 

One of the most delightful spots on the 
Adirondack Railroad, and located in the 
very heart of the Adirondack Mountains, 
is Brant Lake. It is reached by a stage 
from the Riverside station. The lake is 
six miles long, and located upon it is the 
Brant Lake Club, of which Mr. D. G. 
Yuengling, Jr., of New York, is president, 
and Mr. John J. Lenehan secretary. It is 
equipped with every convenience and is 
within easy driving distance of Lake 
George, Schroon Lake, Friends' Lake, 
and all the other delightful and charming 
resorts of this region. The scenery 
all about is unsurpassed in beauty, grand- 
eur and variety, and the roads, along which 
charming drives may be had, are perfect. 
Black bass and pickerel abound in the 
lake, which has been thoroughly stocked, 
and there is excellent trout fishing in the 
moiantain streams near by. The post- 
office address of the club is Horicon, 
Warren County, New York. 

From its source in the uttermost re- 
cesses of nature's own domain, the mag- 
nificent Hudson bounds into life through 
a thousand crystal springs, and by tortu- 
ous courses crosses Warren County, re- 
ceiving the water of Schroon Lake, and 
continuing first southward, receives in 



its course the offerings of many smaller 

streams, emerging from the wilderness; 

thence it turns 

to the east, 

-^T^ . ^.. ~:ym^m and, after its 
uncertain 
course of al- 
most loomiles, 
reaches the 
great cataract 
'at the prosper- 
ous city of 
Glens Falls. 

Glens Falls 
is a very pros- 
perous little 
city of 12,000 
i n h a bitants 
and the centre 
of large manu- 
facturing in- 
possible by the 
water-power furnished 
Hudson River, which at 
this point makes a descent of 56 
feet over rocky falls. 

The most famous scenic at- 
traction of this place is the cave 
made memorable in Cooper's 
novel, " The Last of the Mohi- 
cans." There is an air of general 
thrift about Glens Falls which 
is noticeable even to the most casual visi- 
tor. The city has a particularly cleanly 
appearance, and there is through its resi- 
dential section a wealth of broad velvety 
lawns and noble shade-trees, among 
which are many notably attractive and 
beautiful homes. 

Those stopping at Glens Falls will find 
the Rockwell House, of which Mr. C. L. 
Rockwell is proprietor, very pleasantly 
located on the chief business thoroughfare 
of the city in the very | 

centre of the business _ [j^^^ 
portion. The 
Rockwell is 
one of the best 




■■ Tliose stoppintf at Ulcus Falls will tinil the Itotkneil 
House iileasantly situated." 

conducted houses in New York, every 
attention being paid to those travelling 
for pleasure as well as for business. 



There are few American lakes invested 
with richer historical associations than 
Lake George, for on its calm bosom and 
along its indented borders many san- 
guinary battles were stubbornly fought 
in Colonial times. Hereabouts Lords 
Amherst and Abercrombie, Montcalm and 
Rogers, Howe and Rigaud, Jacques and 
Williams met in mortal combat. There 
were long periods, before Hudson as- 
cended the American Rhine, when on 
Lake George the Indians 
quietly speared the fish. 
Then came 
decades when 
the rattle of 
musketry and 
the boom of the 

cannon from ^^^^^^^^^^^/Kiaissmmm 
thegunboatsof 
Rogers and 
Putnam told 
of execution 



hausted and half of their guns burst, or 
otherwise rendered useless, surrendered 
to the French General Montcalm, the 
same who afterward met death so brave- 
ly upon the Plains of Abraham while de- 
fending Quebec against the onslaught of 
General Wolfe. The story of the massa- 
cre which followed the surrender has 
been often and vividly told, and generally 
with much exaggeration. Bloody Pond, 
a few miles from Fort William Henry, 
is still pointed out to the 
tourist and to the person 
fond of ac- 
cepting tales 
as told to the 
marines. It 
is said to be 
the spot into 
which were 
incontinentl y 
thrown the 
bodies of 
pretty much 
all of the ear- 




be i;j,l; ac- 
complish- 
ed among 
the canoes 
of the 
treacher- 
o u s sav- 
ages. All 
along its 
shores 
fie re e "'l- 
wars 

were S j. 

fought by the 
English, French, 
and aboriginal tribes. About 
the ruins of Forts William 
Henr3% George, and Gage tragic 
memories thickly cluster, and 
the site of these historic earthworks are 
all within a mile of the Fort William 
Henry Hotel. 

Nothing but ill luck betided the Eng- 
lish in this section of the country. In 
1757 the French and their Indian allies 
attacked Fort William Henry, at the head 
of the lake, which was held by a small 
garrison of English troops under Colonel 
Munro, who, after gallantly defending 
the post until their ammunition was ex- 



peacefully rest the waters of Lake George between 
the lamparts of its lulls." 

by Colonel Munro, several hundred in all, 
while as a matter of historical fact not 
more than thirty were killed in the fight. 
Speaking of the lake and of the events 
preceding the bloody scenes enacted at 
its head nearly a hundred and forty years 
ago, George Bancroft, the historian, has 
said : " How peacefully rest the waters of 
Lake George between their ramparts of 
hills; in their pellucid depths the cliffs 
and the hills and the trees trace their 



images and the beautiful region speaks to 
the heart, teaching affection for nature. 
As yet not a hamlet rose on its margin, 
not a straggler had thatched a log hut in 
its neighborhood; only at its head, near 
the centre of a wider opening between 
the mountains, Fort William Henry stood 
on its banks, almost on a level with the 




lake. Lofty hills overhung and com- 
manded the quiet scene, for the heavy 
artillery had not as yet accompanied war 
parties into this wilderness." And to- 
day just as " peacefully rest the waters 
of Lake George between their ramparts 
of hills," and just so to-day " in their pel- 
lucid depths the cliffs and the hills and 
the trees trace their images, and the beau- 
tiful region speaks to the heart, teaching 
affection for nature." Naught has been 
changed in that respect since those earlj^ 
days of which the venerable historian 
wrote, but in other ways the changes 
have been marvellous. Where " not a 
hamlet rose" or a " straggler had thatched 
a log hut," in the days of long ago, have 
been erected stately ho- 
tels, lovely summer homes 
and prosperous villages. 
There are many beautiful 
inland sheets of water, 
both in this country and 
in the old world, but never 
one that was fairer or 
whose natural surround- 
ings were more pictur- 
esque than this one lying 
so close to our homes. 
To see it for the first time 
is a revelation, to glide 
over its waters and to wind in and out 
among its hundreds of rocky islands is ex- 



quisite pleasure, to breathe the invigor- 
ating atmosphere of the adjacent moun- 
tains is health-giving and health-restor- 
ing, to even exist here during the summer 
season is unalloyed joy. 

The human interest in the lake and its 
vicinity affords one of the chief charms. 
Every corner has its historic legend or 
incident. These 
a hundred years 
have very often 
changed s o m e - 
what from the 
original versions 
and thrown into 
mellow perspec- 
tive. The student 
I if folk-lore might 
gather here many 
interesting tales 
and ballads from 
the old residents, 
handed down by 
nouth from colo- 
lial days when 
liey were current 
and the heroes 
they celebrated 
were living men. 
Dunham Bay is thought by Dr. Eggleston 
to be the place where General Montcalm 
secreted his army of French and Indians 
with a view to surprising Fort William 
Henry, before the final attack. Parkman, 
in his Life of Montcalm, has given a 
graphic series of pictures of the lake in 
that struggle, and Cooper, in his story of 
the Mohicans, has immortalized the local- 
ity. On the lake just above the bay is 
the spot where Leatherstocking, Chin- 
gachgook, and Uncas were pursued in ca- 
noes and fought the Indians after the 
massacre of Fort W'illiam Henry. The 
cave where they took refuge with the 
daughters of Colonel 
Monro is still shown 




" With dainty islands crowded close tofiether." 

at Glens Fallsas if ^^^ 
the incident were a 




" Looking: off across the lake toward tlie graceful outlines 
of Black Mountain." 

reality, and the name of Horicon, which 
Cooper soucfht to bestow on the lake, 
ling-ers affectionately among its associa- 
tions. Had Cooper wished to make a 
more exact historical 
novel he would have had 
abundant material in the 
daring feats and escapes 
of the intrepid Rogers, 
the captain of the lake 
riflemen during the 
French and Indian war. 
Rogers was one of the 
characters of that war, 
as he was one of the 
first of the great native 
Indian fighters of this 
country. He has left his 
name on many a story 
of Lake George, but he 
lost the opportunity of 
enrolling it among" the 
Revolutionary patriots when he became 
a rabid Tory. 

Lake George is located in the St. Law- 
rence water-shed and empties into Lake 
Champlain, which also flows northward. 
It has as its chief town Caldwell, which 
is located directly at the head of the lake. 
Here the steamers connect with the trains 
of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, 
which, leaving the main line at Fort Ed- 
ward, run to Caldwell, the line terminat- 
ing upon the large pier, and the trains 
stopping directly at the side of the 
steamers. 

People who are thoroughly informed 
as to the various beauties and attractions 
of Lake George appreciate the fact that 
the picturesque village of Caldwell, is 



one of the most convenient 
and most delightful spots 
on the lake. Its location 
from a scenic point of view 
is as near ideal as can be, 
and the Horicon Improve- 
ment Company has done and 
is doing a great deal to add. 
to the many advantages of 
the place. This enterprising 
company, in addition to 
owning and operating the 
old and ever-popular Lake 
House, which looks down 
through a lovely grove over 
wide-stretching lawns to the 
lake on one side, and faces 
the village street of Cald- 
well on the other, oper- 
ates the Prospect Moun- 
tain House. This house 
has been built on the very 
summit of the majestic mountain of 
that name, which rises directly back of 
the village, and from which a most 
magnificent view embracing Lake George 




Where tlie pretty summer homes and settlemeius grace 
the wooded shores." 



and the Hudson Valley may be had. 
Northward may be seen every prominent 
Adirondack peak, and down at the foot of 
the mountain, nestling amid a mvriad of 




' Tlie Canoeing Association mak 




" From the porches of the Ljike House at Caldwell a lovely vista 
of the lake is had through the trees." 

trees, is the quiet, peaceful little village 
of Caldwell, hugging close to the western 
shore of the lake. A cable road longer 
in point of altitude and higher than either 
that at the Catskills, on Lookout IVIo^in- 
tain in Tennessee, or at Pasadena, Cali- 
fornia, has been built up the side of the 
mountain, extending from the lake shore 
to the very summit. This road has been 
constructed by the Otis Engineering and 
Construction Company, and the cars are 
operated between the Lake House and 
Caldwell and the Prospect Mountain 
House, far above 
it on the top of 
the mountain, at 
short intervals. 
The Lake 
House has, dur- 
ing the past sea- 
son, been en- 
tirely remod- 
elled, and in its 
equipment is as 
absolutely mod- 
ern and metro- 
politan as it is 
possible to make 
a summer hotel. 
In its natural lo- 
cation there are 
few houses that 
excel it. Its 
grounds reach 
to the pebbly 
shores of the 
lake, and a num- 
ber of handsome 
cottages sur- 
round the hotel proper, giving it a de- 
lightful colony effect. The drives about 
Caldwell are far-famed, especially those 



over the magnificent graded 
boulevard to Warrensburg and 
up the western shore. 

The Prospect Mountain House 
at the upper end of the long 
cable, which has fairly scorned 
in its construction the rugged 
sides of the mountain, is under 
the same management as the 
Lake House, and guests at one 
house may have the privileges 
of the other. It possesses all 
the agreeable features of club 
life, with private dining-rooms, 
and also a large restaurant open 
to the air on either side, or glass- 
enclosed, as the condition of the 
weather may make desirable : 
this is conducted on the Euro- 
pean plan. 
The other terminus of the steamer's 
trip is Baldwin, at the foot of the lake. 
This is the terminus of the Fort Ticon- 
deroga branch of the Delaware and Hud- 
son Railroad, and passengers going 
down Lake George by steamer make 
close connections there with the beauti- 
ful trains of this line for Lake Champlain 
resorts, Ausable Chasm, the Adirondacks, 
Montreal, and all Canadian points. 

The trip down Lake George from Cald- 
well to Baldwin challenges in its every 
point of scenic beauty any other trip of 




The cable road runs from the village of (.uklwcll [ 



equal length on the American continent. 
From time almost immemorial, poets and 
writers have apostrophized Lake George 



and laid their literary tributes, in prose 
and verse, upon its altar. Between the 
great ridges of mountains which close in 
upon its sides for its entire length 




re infoniit'iJ consider Calthvt.'ll oue of the most 
delightful places." 

there lies a lake whose crystalline 
depths reflect so perfectly the blue 
azure of the sky that as it sparkles in the 
sunlight it almost reverses, and equals 
in brilliancy, the blue dome of the heavens 
above. Dotting its limpid surface are 
more than three hun dred rocky and wooded 
islands, so closely crowded together in 
some parts of the lake that a pilot's 
utmost skill is required to guide the great 
white steamers between them. Many of 
these islands have been made attractive 
by quaint and slightly cottages, while 
others, belonging to the State 
and being free to all comers, 
have been made tem- 
porary homes by sum- 
iner campers, who have 
spread their tents 
under the dense foli- 
age, to enjoy, free 
from the conven- 
tionalities of hotel 
life, unrestrained 
communion with 
nature. 

As if jealous of 
the approaches of 
the grim old moun- 
tains, the lake has, 
in many instances, 
crowded itself be- 
tween them, and thus ~ 
have been formed some 
of the loveliest of bays, 
where, protected from the 
winds and shaded by the 
wide-spreading trees along their 
edges, acres of water-lilies have 
claimed the domain as their own 
and spread over the tranquil 



own design, beautiful beyond description. 
It is in these sequestered, lovely spots 
that we may find the very acme of human 
rest. Here we may realize the delights 
of the spirit of dolce far niente, and may 
rest for hours beyond the reach 
of human voice under the shade 
of friendly boughs to dream or 
read, unmindful of the world, 
forgetful of care, forgetful of all 
except the beauty of nature's 
inner labyrinths. 

The two well-appointed steam- 
ers, Horicon and Ticonderoga, or 
"Ti," as it is familiarly called, 
on their journey down the lake, 
make a score of stops, and cross 
and re-cross the lake many times. 
At each of these landing-places 
are hotels of greater or less im- 
portance, all with characteristic attrac- 
tions and filled with summer guests. 
The very stopping at these landings is 
a source of diversified pleasure to the 
tourists, as at each wharf is found a gay 
group of summer campers who rally 
there at boat-time, as the villagers were 
wont to do around the countrj- store when 
the daily stage arrived. 

On the western shore of the the lake, 
six miles below Caldwell, and almost 
hemmed in by the mountains at its rear, 

stands the de- 
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a carpet of leaf and blossom of nature's 



pop- 
ular 
Marion 
"se House. 

From its wide 
porches or beautiful lawn a view of al- 
most the entire length of Lake George 



may be had. The steamers stop directly 
in front of the house, and there is for the 
use of the guests a large fleet of row- 
boats and two beautiful steam j-achts, the 
Rachel and JSlarion. The table is supplied 
with the purest and freshest of farm prod- 
ucts, and butter, milk and cream are sup- 
plied by the drove of Jersey cows which 
is one of the famous features of the place. 
Fine roads lead from the hotel, and good 
saddle-horses and stjdish turn-outs are 
supplied to guests, who may also charter 
for special excursions the tally-ho coach, 
Marion. Almost every room in the house 
furnishes a lake view, although the moun- 
tain view from the western windows is 
quite as beautiful. The hotise is sup- 
plied with electric bells and lighted with 
gas and electricity. There are elevators, 
and the drinking water is brought from a 
large spring far up the mountainside. 

In the heart of that portion of Lake 
George where the mountains are the 
wildest and the most rugged, and but six 
miles from Fort Ticonderoga, with its his- 
toric associations, is the Rogers Rock Ho- 
tel. It occupies a bold promontory just 
to the north of the famous Rogers Slide, 
where tradition has it that the general of 
that name slid down its smooth and pre- 
cipitous face onto the ice of the lake to 
escape the Indians. On the summit of 
the mountain above the hotel the Rev. 



fishing grounds on the lake are in the 
neighborhood of the Rogers Rock Hotel, 
which has all of the requisites of an ideal 
summer home. The draining and sani- 
tary arrangements are modern and per- 
fect, and the table is in every feature ex- 
cellent. The steamers on the lake all stop 
at the wharf of the hotel, and it is thus 
easy of access. Mr. T. J. Treadway is 
the manager, and Mr. W. D. Treadway 
proprietor, the post office address being 
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" In the heart of that portion of Lake Ueorgre where the mountajus are tlie wildest 
is the Rogers Kock Hotel." 

Joseph Cook has erected an observatory 
and a summer home, surrounded by a 
large and beautiful natural park. A 
well-made path leads to it directly from 
the hotel, thus making this observatory 
one of the popular places of resort, as the 
views from it take in the wildest range 
of lake and mountain scenery. The best 



pleasant place to taiTy. 

Bolton has long been known as one of 
the chief resorts of Lake George, and it 
has won distinction because of its beau- 
tiful — in fact, ideal— location on Parodi 
Point. Upon a wooded headland, and 
within one hundred feet of the pebbly 
edge of the lake, stands the Lake View 
House, of which 
Mr. R. J. Brown 
has been the pro- 
prietor ever since 
the house was 
o])ened in 1875. 
There is found in 
the Lake View 
' me of the most 
comfortable and 
home-like sum- 
mer hotels, a 
jilace where it is 
a pleasure to stay, 
and where within 
the easiest reach 
nay be enjoyed 
all the various at- 
tractions of Lake 
George. This ho- 
tel accommodates 
about one hundred and fifty people, and 
the house is exceedingly well built and 
delightfully furnished. It is in the cen- 
tre of the famous fishing district, and all 
about it are delightful opportunities for 
either sport or pleasure. A steam ferry- 
boat plies between the hotel and the 
Bolton landing. 



smiles are found 



Lake Champlain, which runs „..— — . — .« 

within elongated and mostly nar- ^ pastoral hills to 
row confines for one hundred and i^ winds, too, are ai 




' ' The steamers make daily trips upon the lake. 



twenty -six 
miles, almost 
north and 
south, divides 
for this distance the States of New York 
and Vermont. South of Fort Ticonde- 
roga, which is its southern terminus in a 
commercial sense, it is contracted be- 
tween low and swampy shores, appearing 
to the eye more like a river than a lake, 
and at some points being scarcely 500 
feet across. To the northward of Fort 
Ticonderoga, however, it broadens into 
a wide lake, reaching out at Burlington 
to a width of 10 miles, and, beyond this, 
to 15 miles, but with many intervening 
islands. In character Lake Champlain is 
vastly different from the smaller but no 
less beautiful Lake George. One is a 
picture and the other a miniature, both 
perfect in their way. If 
Champlain 
were human, 
one might say 



pany, 



in the wide-stretching and 
the eastward. The north 
pt to work it into an angry 
mood, and while it is never 
treacherous, it is far more apt 
to be rough and inhospitable 
than its more gentle compan- 
ion. Lake George. Like the 
latter, it is rich in islands and 
there are no more beautiful trips 
upon inland seas than may be 
enjoyed upon the commodious 
and modern steamboats Vef- 
inout and Chateaugay, of the 
Champlain Transportation Com- 
which make the round trip of 
the lake daily, touching at all points. 

The tourists on the Delaware and Hud- 
son Railroad may, if they prefer, make the 
journey either way between Fort Ticon- 
deroga to Plattsburg or Hotel Cham- 
plain by steamer instead of rail, as the 
tickets are good either way. Fort Ticon- 
deroga, from which point the steamers 
leave, is as indissolubly associated with 
early American history as any other 
point on the continent. Upon the sum- 
mit of Mt. Defiance, which stands di- 
rectly to the west side of the railroad, 
Burgoyne, in July, 1777, planted his 
heavy battery and began the bombard- 
ment of the fort whose pic- 
turesque ruins 
still crown the 
summit of the 




that it was petulant 
and smiling by 
turns, for upon one 
shore its precipitous | 
and rocky promon-,' 
tories give it its 
frowns, while its 



" Fort Ticonderoga is indissolubly connected with 
America's history." 



rocky peninsula north 
of the steamer's pier. 
This was a natural 
^jl^l location for such a 
NhBi] stronghold, being 
bounded upon three 
sides by water, and 



on the fourth by a swamp. A little to 
the southeast, upon a high point, are the 
remains of the Grenadiers' Battery, still 
well preserved. The first defensive 
works on this point were built in 1690; 
and in the year following Major Schuyler 
here brought together the Christian and 
Mohawk forces which met their defeat at 
La Prairie. Almost three-quarters of a 
century after this. Baron Dieskau took 
possession of the fortification, and in the 
year following Montcalm with a large 
French army occupied it and gave the 
name of Fort Karillon to the extensive 
works which he built. Three years later, 
General Abercrombie, in command of 
16,000 troops, made a vigorous attack 
upon the fort, but after a bloody fight 
was repulsed, the French losing 380 men 
and the Anglo- American army 1,942, the 
gallant Lord Howe being among those 
killed in this action. In 1758 Lord Am- 
herst, with 11,000 men and 54 cannon, 
drove the French from the place, after 
they had burned the barracks and ex- 
ploded the powder-magazine. From that 
time until the loth of May. 1775, quiet 
reigned ; but upon that day, Ethan Allen 
and Benedict Arnold, commanding their 
85 New England men, surprised and cap- 
tured the fort. In 1777 General St. Clair, 
with 3,446 men, held the fort, but Bur- 
goyne, having advanced from Canada, 
succeeded through the bombardment 
from Fort Defiance in rendering the fort 
untenable. Ten weekslater the outworks 
of Fort Ticonderoga, with 200 l>atteai/x,ox 
war-vessels, and their cannon, and nearly 
300 prisoners were captured by 1,000 
New England troops which Colonel 
Brown led against the fort- 
ress, and the 100 American 
prisoners were liberated. A 
few weeks later the fort was 
dismantled, but in 1780 was 
reoccupied for a short period 
by General Haldemand, but 
since that time has been de- 
serted. Eight miles above 
Fort Ticonderoga at Crown 
Point, which is in these mod- 
ern days quite an iron manu- 
facturing centre, the ruins of 
an old fortress may be seen 
upon a promontory between 
Lake Champlain and Bul- 
wagga Bay. A fine stone 
lighthouse marks the point, 
but otherwise it is abandoned 
to its ancient ruin, the ram- 
parts of which are fully half 
a mile around, twenty-five 



feet high and with the same thickness, 
being faced with stone. This fort, which 
was originally erected upon Pitt's orders 




" Where placid bays indent tlie shores." 

by Lord Amherst, is said to have cost the 
British ten millions of dollars. 

In 1775 Warren's Green Mountain Boys 
captured the fort with its 14 guns; and 
in 1777 Burgoyne made the fort his chief 
depot of supplies in his advance on Al- 
bany. The old ramparts are overgrown 
with dense thickets and many blood-red 
thorn-apple trees. These are to be found 
nowhere else in the State, and are said to 
have been brought from France. 

Fort Henry, a prosperous town located 
upon the shore of the lake at Bulwagga 
Port, eighteen miles above Ticonderoga, 
is the centre of the extensive iron mines 
thereabouts, and several great blast fur- 
naces have been erected near the steam- 
er's landing. 




Along 



the rocky shores of Ijike Champlain with their weather 
and wave-battered faces." 



Westport, eleven miles beyond, is 
charmingly situated on Westport Bay 
(called " Bale du Roche Fendu" on the 



wide — which is adjacent to the town, was 
the boundary between the territory of 
the Mohawks and the Algonquins, whose 




" Westport overlooks the fairest portion of Lake Champlain." 



old maps), overlooking the fairest por- 
tion of Lake Champlain. This was the 
scene of Gen. Benedict Arnold's famous 
fight with the Co/igress on October 13, 
1776, on which he succumbed to the su- 
perior force of Captain Pringle and the 
British ships, and running the Congress 
galley and four gondolas into a small 
bay directly opposite Westport, burned 
them to the water's edge. Some of the 
cannon and many pieces of the famous 
ship have been taken from the lake. 

This prosperous little town is in itself 
an important summer resort, but is 
known chiefly because of its superb situ- 
ation as one of the principal gateways 




"Here also is the Westpoit Inn. Miiiouudecl hj 
many charms." 

to the Adirondack region. It, too, has 
many historical associations, as Split 
Rock — a remarkable cliff, separated from 
the mountain by a deep cleft twelve feet 



territories were occupied by the English 
and French respectively. In 17 10 it was 
acknowledged by the Treaty of Utrecht 
as the limit of the English dominions, and 
in 1760 it was officially designated as the 
boundary between New York and Cana- 
da; but years subsequently the Ameri- 
cans passed it under arms and won the 
territory for yj miles to the north. 

The constantly increasing number of 
visitors to Westport^ — attracted thither 
by its historical associations, no less 
than by its beautiful location and an 
equable climate — find there a most com- 
fortable hotel, "The Westport Inn," to 
which summer visitors return year after 
year, accompanied by friends to whom 
the story of Westport beauty has been 
told and retold. 

Elizabethtown has been called, and 
very properly, the inner gateway of the 
Adirondacks; and this charmingly situ- 
ated little town, with its environs of 
green hills and its background of grace- 
ful mountain peaks, is a fitting introduc- 
tion to the wild grandeur of the country 
beyond, the land of shimmering lakes 
and solitude. 

From Westport, which may be termed 
the outer gateway of the North Woods, the 
di-ive of eight miles to Elizabethtown 
through the Raven Pass on the comfort- 
able tally-ho stages is one long to be 
recalled in pleasant memory. 

There are few travellers who can resist 
the temptation to tarry for a few days at 
Elizabethtown, exploring the wonders of 
the region beyond. 




Here he may 
study and enjoy 
the mountains 
which have as 
many moods as 
the sea; he may 
see their 1 o n g 
dense shadows in 
the early morn, 
outlined with 
greater intensity 
in the deep gorges 
and ravines which 
the convulsions of 
nature have left 
as scars on the 
mountainsides. 

At Elizabeth- 
town is the ever- 
popular Windsor Hotel, with Mr. Orlando 
Kellogg as proprietor. Upon the pages 
of its register have been subscribed the 
names of thousands of people known to 





the world of letters, politics, and fashion. 
Elizabethtown is the tourist centre of the 
beautiful and unequalled Keene Valley, 
and the Windsor Hotel is the social cen- 
tre of Elizabethtown. The Windsor 
coaches meet all trains and boats at 
Westport, and connect with stages to 
Keene Valley, Cascade Lakes, North Elba 
and Lake Placid. Private teams will be 
provided when requested. A delightful 
place at which to spend a longer or 
a shorter period, as it is within easy 
reach, by the best drives, of many of the 
most attractive spots in the Adiron- 
dacks. Elizabethtown is in itself a most 
charming village, and is within eight 
hours of New York, four hours from 
Albany, and three from Saratoga. The 
hotel itself is perfectly appointed and 
unexceptionably managed. It has every 
convenience which may add to the com- 



witlistaiid till' tfiiiptation to spenU 
; at F^lizabfthtown. ' 

fort and pleasure of existence. A hand- 
some four-in-hand brake makes two trips 
daily from the Windsor through the stir- 
roimding mountains, and the livery 
attached to the house is abundantly 
supplied with saddle and driving 
horses. The table at the Windsor 
is not excelled anywhere, as the 
proprietor is the owner of one of 
the largest and best-appointed 
farms in northern New York, from 
which the table is supplied with 
fresh butter, cream, eggs and veg- 
etables. Professor Mason, the an- 
alytical chemist, has pronounced 
the drinking water at Elizabeth- 
town one of the purest waters he 
has ever analyzed. 

Mr. Kellogg has had twenty-five 
years' experience in the hotel bus- 
iness at Elizabethtown, and it is 
doubtful if any man in America is 
better qualified to meet the requirements 
of summer guests. He is also proprietor 
of the Mansion House, Elizabethtown, 
of which his son- in-law 

Mr. C. A. Ferris, ^atgSHKdttijMb is the 
manager. The ^^H^^^nSn driv e 
from Elizabeth- "^l^^^^^l^^ t own 
to Lake Placid is 




John Browu's boib lits iiiouliki ing m the grave 



one of about 
thirty miles; ev- 
ery rod of the dis- 
tance, every new 
view opened up 
at each turn in 
the road, is full 
of beauty. At 
Keene Post-oftice 
the east branch 
of the Ausable 
River is crossed, 
and then begins 
the climb along 
the steep sides 
of Pitchoff Moun- 
tain to the series 
of narrow ponds 
known as the Cas- 
cade Lakes. A 
few rods across 

them the side of Long Pond Mountain 
rises directly over the water, and as the 
turn is made around the western end of 
Pitchoff Mountain, the Giant of the Valley 
springs into full view. Then there come 
in rapid succession views of Wolf's Jaws, 
Saddleback, Haystack, March, Golden, 
Mclntyre, and Wallface. 

Descending into the valley of the west 
branch of the Ausable, the road passes 
the fields which John Brown cleared for 
the use of the negroes before he made 
his celebrated raid upon Harper's Ferry 
which resulted in his death. One may 





\;illrj li.iN no Lyual iu AimiRU, if iu the world, fur j)ifturesciUL' 
loveliness and romanlic beauty." 

also see the old shingled cottage in the 
distance, and the veteran's remains are 
buried close by it. The village of North 
Elba is in view five miles before it is 
reached, and Lake Placid, perhaps three 
miles beyond. At North Elba the west 
branch of the Ausable is crossed and the 
ascent made to Lake Placid Post-office, 
which is really upon Mirror Lake. 

Whiteface, which watches over Lake 
Placid with majestic presence, is among 
the highest of the Adirondacks. A won- 
derful view of Lake Ghamplain is had 
from the summit, although it is forty 
miles away. Un- 
der favorable 
weather condi- 
tionsMontreal and 
the St. Lawrence 
River can be seen 
with a glass. Sev- 
enty lakes, scat- 
tered in all direc- 
tions, may be seen 
without a glass. 
Lake Placid, 
which is the most 
beautiful of them 
all, is the strategic 
point of the whole 
Adirondack re- 
gion. As he looks 
from Placid to the 
soiithward, Sew- 
ard, Wallface, Mc- 
lntyre, Golden, 
Marcy, Saw-teeth, 
Gothic, and Am- 
persand moun- 
tains range them- 
selves from west 



loimtaius are rueged and bold, and clothed to their 
very summits with primeval forests." 




" In thn midst of the most sublime of the 
Adiroudat^k scenery." 

to east while off at the extreme right the 
Giant peeps out from the rear of Pitchoff 
andindicatesthe location of Keene V^alley. 

In the heart of beautiful Keene Valley 

stands St. Hubert's Inn, in f 

the midst of the highest moun- ■ 
tains and the most sublime of 
the Adirondack scenery. Keene 
Heights, upon which the Inn 
stands, is a broad plateau en- ■' 
tirely surrounded by mountains 
clothed to their suinmits with 
primeval forests, and is in it- 
self so elevated that it does 
not have the impression of be- 
ing shut in. 

The Adirondack Mountain 
Reserve, covering forty square 
miles of territory, immediately 
adjoins that of the hotel. With- 
in this Reserve are the two beauti- 
ful Ausable Lakes and many trout 
streams. The guests of St. Hubert's are 



given permits to fish within its 
limits, and its many beauties are 
free to the guests of the Inn. 

Dr. E. G. Janeway, of New 
York, a well-known expert, pro- 
nounces the air at Keene Heights 
particularly beneficial to those 
suffering from hay fever or 
asthma, while Stoddard, whose 
guide book of the Adirondacks 
is a classic in its way, says that 
" the scenery about St. Hubert's 
Inn, down the Keene Valley and 
up from the Adirondack Moun- 
tain Reserve, including the fam- 
ous Ausable Lakes, is grand be- 
yond description and Swiss-like 
in its beauty." No less an au- 
thority than Charles Dudley Warner 
has said of these lakes that " In the 
sweep of their wooded shores and 
lovL-lv contour of the loftv mountains that 






lin- view iivm St. Hubert s liiu is la»ciualiiiK 



; Lakes, the most cliainiii];-' 
any in America." 



guard them, they are 

probably the most charming 
in America." 

St. Hubert's Inn is 
new, fresh, and attrac- 
tive, modern in construction 
and thoroughly complete in ev- 
ery particular. There are sur- 
rounding it eighteen cottages, 
and thus is formed a complete 
colony with a social life as char- 
acteristic as it is charming. 
All of the vegetables, milk, 
cream and eggs come from Or- 
lando Beede's farm in the valley. 
Attached to St. Hubert's Inn 
is a casino for various enter- 
tainments, and a well-equipped 
livery stable attached to the Inn. 
Messrs. Beede and Houghton 
are the proprietors. The post- 
office is named Beede's, and is 
located in the house. 



The Stevens House, which is the great 
social centre of the Lake Placid region, 
is picturesquely located, on an elevation 
commandinir one of the most magnificent 



seaumont,the new hotel at Lake Placid. It 
overlooks both Mirror Lake and Lake 
Placid, and offers from its piazzas and 
windows some of the fairest and most 




' From one side of the Stevens House may be seen Mirror Lake, and fium the other. 
the ever beautiful Lake Placid. " 



of the many views which are afforded in 
this region. Its main floor is 2,063 ^^et 
above tide-water, and from one side of 
the hotel may be seen Lake Placid, and 
on the other Mirror Lake. 
There is no hotel in the Adi- 
rondacks which commands 
grander or lovelier views. 
The four highest mountains 
in the State stand out in full 
view from the porches of the 
hotel. The Stevens House 
is finished throughout in hard 
wood and handsomely fur- 
nished. Its ideal location 
makes every room a front 
room, and, unlike many of 
the summer hotels, its bed- 
chambers are all large and 
each has two windows. 
Messrs. J. A. and G. A. Ste- 
vens are the owners and managers, and 
what Lake Placid is to the Adirondacks, 
the Stevens House is to Lake Placid. 

Of all the Adi- rondack hotels none 
have a ./^. more 



extensive views. It is a modernly 
equipped hotel in every respect and 
tmder the management of Mr. T. Ed- 
mund Krumbholz has become a favorite 




niountniiis are reflected in Mirror Lake witli 
vivid distinctness." 



ideal lo- 
th an the 




cation 
Ruis- 



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" Tlie JJuisseaumont has become a favorite stopping-jjlace.' 



stopping-place with the large number of 
Adirondack vistors who return to the 
Ruisseaumont after a tour through the 
mountains with the feeling that no other 
hotel can quite take its place. Although 
luxurious in its furnishings and with 
every convenience for the comfort and 
well-being of its guests, it yet retains 
- that homelike character so often lacking 
at the great resort hotels of the country. 
The Ruisseaumont opens about the first 
of June, when the countrj^ is the most 
beautiful, and remains open until late in 
the fall. It has ample accommodation for 
two hundred guests. Further informa- 
tion will be furnished on application to 
the manager at Lake Placid. 



The Grand View Hotel at Lake Placid, 
of which an illustration appears on this 
page, is one of the newest and most mod- 



season on the 22d of June, and rates may 
be had by addressing The Grand View 
Hotel Company, Lake Placid, New York. 




' The Grand View Hotel on Lake Placid is new and occupies a comnuuiiliii(j 
Lake Placid and its surrounding mountains." 



ern hotises in the Adirondacks. It was 
built about two seasons ago and comfort- 
ably accommodates two hundred and fifty 
people. The house is built upon a com- 
manding situation furnishing a combined 
view of mountain and lake. The office 
of the house is the largest in the Adiron- 
dacks, is handsomely furnished, and is 
very much used as a social-room by the 
ladies and gentlemen. The ball-room is 
forty by fifty feet, the same as the office; 
and the parlor is a separate room by 
itself and opens on three sides with broad 
verandas. The music of the house is 
under the direction of Professor Dubois, 
of Brooklyn, and three concerts are given 
each day. There is every facility at the 
Grand View for enjoying to the fullest 
extent life in the Adirondacks — out of 



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"The Algonqiiin on lower Saranac 
Lake." 



doors there are tennis and base-ball 
grounds, and indoors there are billiards 
and pool. The Grand View opens this 



Good roads through one of the most 
beautiful sections of the Adirondacks, 
from Lake Placid to Saranac Lake, pre- 
sent an opportunity for an ideal stage 
ride, but for tourists who desire to travel 
in a more comfortable and rapid manner 
a well-equipped railway has recently 
been constructed. This line, The Sara- 
nac & Lake Placid Railway, makes direct 
connection at Saranac Lake with all the 
trains of the Chateaugay line and brings 
the entire Lake Placid and Mirror Lake 
section within easy reaching distance of 
all points on the D. & H. system via 
Plattsburgh. At Saranac Lake, the ter- 
minus of the Chateaugay line, are located 
a number of the largest and most famous 
of the Adirondack hotels, prominent 
among them being the Algonquin. 

No illustration can convey to the 
reader the beauty of the location of this 
hotel, situated as it is on the lower Sara- 
nac Lake, one of the most beautiful of 
the Adirondack gems. There are few, 
if any, locations in the North Woods 
where one may find amid such delightful 
natural surroundings such a com- 
fortable and luxurious hotel. Noth- 
ing is lacking that will increase the 
comfort of its guests. 

There is most excellent sport 

to be had in the neighborhood 

of the Algonquin, and the fishing 

in the Saranac is too famous 

to need particular mention here. 

Further information regarding this 

region may be had of Mr. John Harding, 

Algonquin P. O., Franklin Co., X. Y. 



Some man with a keen sense of humor 
has said that the Chateaugay Railroad, 
which, having its beginning at Platts- 
burg, penetrates the most delightful por- 
tion of the Adirondacks, should be called 
the " Bee Line," because its course is so 
like that of the busy bee, flitting from 
flower to flower. There is a wonderful 
degree of freshness and variety in the 
scenery along this picturesque line : 
towering mountains 
hem in the horizon on 
each side, 
while here 
and there 
the 
val- 
levs 




hundreds from gratifying their desire to 
visit them, but most of the choicer places 
are now easily reached by the Chateau- 
gay Railroad via Plattsburg. The lakes 
along this line include such gems as 
Upper and Lower Chateaugay, Chazy, 
Loon, Rainbow and the Upper and Lower 
Saranac. On the two latter the finest trip 
by water of any in the whole North Woods 
is to be enjoyed. Comfortably seated in 
one of the light Adirondack 
boats with a strong-armed 
guide at the oars, one may 
^ start at the 

""' Algonquin 

andskirtthe 
lily-padded 
and wooded 
shore of the 
entire Low- 
er Saranac, 
and by mak- 
ing a short 
" carry, ' ' he 
may launch 
his craft 
in the Up- 
perSaranac. 
From here 
he may by 
turns cross 
the placid 
bosom of 



It IS a paradise tor the 
rod and gun.' 



open uut, disclosing 
vistas of lovely lakes, 
skirted to the very 
edges with dense for- 
ests of pine tree and 
balsam. There is not 
a mile of the Chateaugay Railroad which 
is not full of interest to even the casual 
tourist, and it reaches hotels of all grades, 
from elegant, thoroughly equipped houses 
where the wealthy and fashionable may 
enjoy every luxury, to the more modest 
but comfortable resort where people of 
the most moderate means find delightful 
summer homes. In the earlier days of 
the Adirondack mountains as a summer 
resort the long, tedious stage road neces- 
sary to reach distant points prevented 



lover of the 



Fish Creek, Big Square' 
Floodwood, Rollins and 
Whey ponds, all lovely 
bodies of water edged with forest-cov- 
ered mountains. It is one of the most 
beautiful trips imaginable, and to the 
lover of nature an ideal way to spend a 
half week. In fact no one can fully ap- 
preciate the most fascinating phases and 
hidden beauties of Adirondack life until 
he has taken this most romantic of trips 
by boat, for Nature hides her choicest 
gems in the deepest recesses of the 
mountains, apart from the beaten paths 
of man. 







to the railroad 
that the New York 
markets aredrawn 
upon very liber- 
ally for the table 
supplies, and the 
surrounding- 
country furnishes 
an abt:ndance of 
fresh vegetables, 
fruit and milk. 
There are in the 
Wawbeek all the 



conveniences 

j which the most 

^ exacting guests 

" The Wawbeek is the center of gayety and social life of Upper Saranao Lake." maV reO uire and 

There are manyspots on the route where it is in the very centre of the best 
the forests descend to the water's edge fishing and shooting districts of the North 
and the eye cannot penetrate the tangled 
growth. Their mysterious perfume em- 
bodies the deepest, sweetest, most de- 
lightful secrets of nature; the odor is 
subtle, fragrant beyond description, and 
heavy with aromatic airs. 

The Adirondack " guides," in the Sar- 
anac, and other sections of the woods, 
are as fine a set of men as can be found 
the world over. As a rule they are 
thoroughly sober, trustworthy, willing 
and companionable, and can shoot, cook, 
and tell yarns with a skill truly remark- 
able. They know the great trackless 
wilderness thoroughly, and the writer 
has never in his experience seen, and 
then but for a moment, one puzzled over 
his location but once, and that was when 
making a " carry" from one pond to an- 



^l^^t^^^^^^^^^ 





"The carry between the Saianac L.-iki s i- .i short one.' 

other on a dark night through an almost 
impenetrable forest. 

On the shores of the upper Saranac 
Lake stands the Hotel Wawbeek with its 
cottages. The Wawbeek is not a sani- 
tarium, but is intended to be, and is, a 
delightfully situated, beautifully run and 
thoroughly ideal summer home. Mr. 
Harlow H. Chandler has been its mana- 
ger for three seasons, and has impressed 
not only his popularity, but that of the 
house, effectually upon all his guests. 
The Wawbeek is so conveniently located 



•' .\n incident of the chase." 

Woods. The largest trout catch of the 

past season was made in this lake a short 
distance from the Hotel Wt.w- 
beek shore. A post-oflice and 
telegraph-office are in the house, 
andvarious delightful trips may 
be made from this point, by 
either land or water. Send to the 

manager, " 

Wawbeek 
N.Y., for 
pamphlet 
regarding 

the attractions of 

this ideal region. 




Kew return empty-handed.' 



Chateaugay Lake has for many years 
been the favorite rendezvous of those who 
wish to combine fishing and hunting with 
the many other attractive 
featur-es of the 
North Woods. No- 
where are there 
greater or better op- '{jj 

port unities for 
sport. The entire 
region about Cha- 
teaugay and Chazy 




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" Good health and wholesome pleasure go hand ux hand 
at Ralph's." 

Lakes, and in fact along the line of the 
Chateaugay railroad, is a natural game 
and fish preserve where excellent sport is 
sure to be had. 

One of the famous resorts whose name 
is almost indissolubly associated with the 
Adirondacks is Ralph's, on the eastern 
shore of the Chateaugay Lake, about 
three and one-half miles over a good 
road from the railroad station at Lyon 
Mountain on the Chateaugay Railroad. 
It is in the heart of the delightfully wild 
region, where the throbbings of the great 
wilderness are most distinct. Ralph's is 
one of those fascinating, home-like spots. 




" The Chateaugay Hotel stands on the north shore 
of the Lake." 

where, if one goes for a week, he is 
tempted to linger for a month. Good 
health and wholesome pleasure here go 



hand in hand, and each season finds at 
Ralph's many old and familiar faces who 
have found in Chateaugay Lake and 
at this famous 
hotel the ideal 
of contentment 
and comfort. 
There wall be 
lound at Ralph's 
all of the ac- 
companying con- 
veniences and 
excellent fish- 
ing, with game 
in abundance. 
As for boating, 
there is no more 
inviting lake in 
the North Woods than the Chateau- 
gay, which for quiet beauty of scen- 
ery has been made famous through 
its many reproductions on canvas. 
Mr. J. W. Hutton is the proprietor 
of Ralph's, the post-office address 
being Lyon Mountain, New York. 
It is easily reached by the Dela- 
ware and Hudson Railroad to Plattr- 
burg, and the Chateaugay Rail- 
road from there to Lyon Mountain. 
The Chateaugay Hotel, which stands on 
the north shore of the beauti- 
ful lake from which it takes 
its name, commands a most 
attractive view, east, south, and 
west. Mr. Charles W. Back- 
us, the proprietor, purchased 
it in 1893, and has spared 
neither money, pains, norlabor, 
to make it as attractive and 
comfortable a hostelry as can 
be found in the Adirondacks. 

On the eastern side of Lake 
Champlain is the pretty city of 
Burlington, with its 20,000 inhabitants, its 
college, its scores of magnificent resi- 
dences, its extensive manufactories, and 
its many historical associations. Here 
the lake is at its widest, and one may 
look westward across its lovely surface 
and see the Adirondack Mountains, a sea 
of stern and rugged peaks, silhouetted 
against the sky, while to the east rise the 
rounded slopes of the Green Mountains. 
Burlington has been apth' called " the 
Naples of the midland sea" by one of the 
many poets who have sung its charms, 
while another writer has said that it has 
the mountain scenery of Scotland, the 
sky and sunsets of Italy, the vallefj's and 
verdure of P'rance, the lake views of 
Switzerland, with the park-like surround- 
ings of an English landscape. 




At Port Kent, 54 miles from Ticonde- 
roga, connection may be made by tourists 
with the new railroad to the famous 
Ausable Chasm, three miles beyond. 

This masterpiece of nature, which 
Baedecker pronounced the greatest nat- 
ural wonder in America, after Niagara 
Falls, is impressive beyond description, 
and the pictures which are presented tell 
of its grandeur 
and beauty more 
graphically than 
would be possi- 
ble in words. 

From far up in 
the mountain 
fastnesses the 
two forks of the 
Ausable River 
have come by tor- 
tuous and uncer- 
tain courses 
through inviting 
valleys until they 
meet just below 
the picturesque 
Memington Pass. 
Then uniting 
they join in a 
mad rush for 
Lake Champlain, 
making almost at 
the very start a 
magnificent 
plunge over 
Alice Falls, the 
most beautiful in 
the Adirondacks. 

This splendid 
cataract falls 
about forty feet, 
much of it being 
an almost sheer 
fall over ledges 
of rock with mag- 
nificent foaming 
watery stair- 
ways bordering 
it with their deli- 
cate lace work on 
either hand. The 
water, of which 
there is a large 
volume, tumbles down into an im- 
mense amphitheatre, which has been 
rounded by the torrent out of the adja- 
cent enclosing rocks during past ages, and 
emerging flows sharply to the right, 
over some rapids, and then over a prosaic 
mill-dam, which is built across just above 
the chasm. Suddenly, as if to try its 
powers, the river leaps over a short fall, 




" Baedecker proTumnces tliis chasm to be the greatest imtiiial 
in America next to the Niagara Falls." 



and then with a force and majesty which 
is overpowering plunges seventy feet 
into the deep abyss below. Clouds of 
spray float upward to be tinted with 
all the colors of the rainbow" by the sum- 
mer's sun. 

The trip through the chasm is one of 
constant surprises. Nature has disported 
herself here in her wildest mood. Sheer 
precipices, near- 
ly 150 feet high,- 
terminate in 
deep, dark pools- 
where the water 
rests after its tu- 
multous passage 
through the more 
narrow gorges. 
There are many 
interesting and 
wonderful spots 
to be passed as 
the visitor fol- 
lows the narrow 
pathway cleft in 
the sides of the 
dripping walls. 
They bear all 
kinds of fantastic 
names as best be- 
fit their own local 
surroundin gs. 
The mostimpres- 
s i V e sensation 
of the trip is re- 
served for the 
end. The visitor, 
seated in a long 
boat and guided 
by a boatman 
who handles the 
paddle, shoots 
the rapids at the 
foot of the cliffs 
200 feet high, 
passing through 
one point where 
the river is but 
13 feet wide. 
Looking back one 
seems to be 
plunging down- 
hill. The boat 
darts through a flume about a quarter of a 
mile long and emerges into abroad plac- 
id basin which marks the exit from the 
chasm, from which the widened river 
flows through a flat open country until it 
empties into Lake Champlain. 

The Lake View House at the Chasm 
and the Chasm itself are under the 
management of Mr. W. H. Tracy. 



From Port Kent the stately steamer 
Vermont follows on its trip the western 
shore of the lake, passing the picturesque 
Ausable Point, and between Valcour 
Island and the bluffs, touches at Bluff 
Point, the landing-place of the great 
Hotel Champlain, which fittingly crowns 
a noble promontory overlook- 
ing the lake and the mountains 
far beyond. This house is typ- 
ical in the highest 
sense of 
the per- 
fection ^ ' 
to which 
Am eri- 
can ar- 
chitects 
and cap- 
ital ists 
have 
brought 
the sum- 
mer ho- 
tel. It 
is sur- 
rounded 







ful, it being simply a choice as between 
lake and mountain. The purest of moun- 
tain spring water is brought from the far- 
away reservoirs of nature, and the winds 
which are wafted from the recesses of 
the mountains are laden with the very 
purity of heaven. 

Immediately below the hotel 
is an abrupt, wooded decliv- 
ity, a bit of the clean sandy 
beach, showing at the 
- li^ .1 1 foot of an open swath cut 

\k u-Cr— *-\ \ through the firs. To the 
northward is Cumberland 
Bay, and across Cumber- 
land Head the further 
waters of the lake near 
its foot. A mile away, 
intermediate, is Crab 
Island and to the right 
Valcour Island, check- 
ered with farms and 
belted with forest area. 




by a 
beau- 
tiful 

natural park of 450 
acres of woodland and 
meadow, and more 
than §50,000 has been 
spent in constructing 
under a well-devised plan perfect road- 
ways, lawns, and walks along the 
lake shore, cliffs, and forests, the house 
itself being built upon a foundation of 
solid rock. Each one of its nearly half- 
thousand rooms commands a view of sur- 
passing loveliness. There are no back 
rooms in this house, because there is a 
frontage to each point of the compass, and 
the outlooks afforded are all beauti- 



•• riie sricnt ITotel Champlain fittingly crowns a noble 
promontory overlooking the lake." 

Five miles across is Grand Isle, and 
beyond to the eastward and southeast 
the shore of Vermont, purple in the 
evening shadows long before the sun 
fades from the flanks of the Green Moun- 
tains. To the right the view of the lake 
is clear for twenty miles; away down 
below Burlington to the narrow reach of 
the southern extreme there are scores of 
distant islands, which now and then 



gloom in passing cloud-shadows and 
again are lost in the dim shore line 
behind. 

White smoke-plumes sway and rise 
and fade along the western shore, where 
express trains, themselves unseen and 
unheard, speed along the rocky reaches 
around the headlands miles away upon 
the " D. & H." Swift steamboats break 
the still surface, and loitering sail-craft 
wait for the evening breeze. Over the lake 
the eye continuously travels upward to 
the base of the 
rugged steeps of 
Mt. Mansfield 
and all of its 
group of lesser 
peaks. To 
sit here in this 

broad prosce- > 

nium watching * 

a sunrise is a 
poein ; to look at 
it in eventide is 
an epic. 

The interior ' 
finishing and .. 
furnishing of | 
the house are 
luxurious and 
bear out the fair 
promise of the 
tasteful white ' 
and gray exte- iJ 
rior so set off by i| 
the long spa- | j 
cious porches i; 
overlooking the i 
lake. Mr. O. D. -i 
Seavey, whose ' 
name is so very i 
long associ- j 
ated with the -j 
Ponce de Leon .. ' 
at Saint Augus- Ig 
tine, is, and has ^*l 
been since its 4 
opening, the 
manager of this ■ w 

hotel." This in 
itself is an assurance that nothing which 
can tend to increase the pleasure or com- 
fort of the guests will be overlooked. 

Life at the Hotel Champlain involves 
a most extraordinar}' variety of diver- 
sions. Equestrian expeditions are possi- 
ble in various directions, and pedestrian 
wanderings are exceedingly popular. 
Frequent steamboats upon the lake and 
local trains upon the railroad offer a long 
list of single-day excursions, each enjoy- 
able in its turn. Much of the best fishing 



I.. |..,.:.. i. l.idf along the westfiu 

.\l>rit>.s iraiiis .^pcud along the rocky I'eaclies 



and hunting territory of the Adirondack 
region may be reached in time to enjo)' 
a good day's sport and return at night- 
fall. Lake Placid, the most widelj- 
known resort in the Adirondack Moun- 
tains, is easily accessible from Bluff 
Point. The abundant provision for thor- 
oughly heating the house in the late 
season makes the Hotel Champlain a 
most desirable point for gentlemen 
sportsmen to locate their families during 
the autumn gunning period. Billiard 
. tables and a se- 
ries of bowling 
alleys (in a 
separate struc- 
ture) offer a 
remedy for 
ennui in inclem- 
ent weather. 

The largest 
military post in 
the East is close 
by, and adds 
greatly to the 
social attrac- 
tions of the 
place, with its 
drills, guard 
mounts, and 
dress parades. 
The music is 
furnished by 
Brooks' Band 
and Orchestra, 
and the ball- 
room is nightly 
a scene of gay- 
ety and pleas- 
ure. Fort Mont- 
gomery, Fort 
Ethan Allen, 
and the histori- 
cal ruins of the 
forts at Crown 
Point and Ti- 
conderoga are 
near by. All 
the steamers of 
the Champlain 
Transportation Company and all the 
trains of the D. & H. stop at the Hotel 
Champlain, the pier being at the foot of 
the bluff and the station in the park just 
west of the hotel. The Hotel Champlain 
is thus easy of access, in either drawing- 
room or sleeping-car from New York, 
Albany, or Saratoga. It is a natural 
and convenient stopping-point for tour- 
ists making the trip to or from Montreal, 
the Adirondacks, the White Mountains, 
or Lake Champlain points. 




Bluff Point is also the station for the 
Catholic Summer School of America, 
an institution whose usefulness is con- 
ceded and whose success is assured. The 
press, Catholic and non-Catholic, has 
been lavish in its praise. It has been 
duly incorporated by a charter from the 
Regents of the University of New York, 




" A ciisiiio, orailministratiuu building, Immediately adjoins the delightful parlc." 

and is regularly and officially classified 
within the system of public instruction 
devoted to university extension. 

The Catholic Summer School aims to 
increase the facilities for busy people as 
well as for those of leisure to pursue 
lines of stud}' in various departments of 
knowledge by providing opportunities of 
getting instruction from eminent special- 
ists. It is not intended to have the scope 
of the work limited to any class, but 
rather to establish an intellectual centre 
where any one with serious purpose, in 
the leisure of a summer vaca- 
tion, without great expense, may 
come and find new incentives to 
efforts for self-improvement. All 
branches of human learning, his- 
tor^^ literature, natural and theo- 
logical science, are to be con- 
sidered in the light of Christian 
truth, according to Cardinal New- 
man's declaration : " Truth is the 
object of knowledge of whatever 
kind ; and truth means facts and 
their relations. Religious truth 
IS not only a portion, but a con- 
dition of knowledge. To blot it out is 
nothing short of unravelling the web of 
university teaching." 

Through the liberality of the Delaware 
and Hudson Railroad corporation, the 
Catholic Summer School owns a magnifi- 
cent estate of tour hundred and fifty 
acres, situated on the west shore of 
Lake Champlain. The Catholic Summer 
School Building and Improvement Com- 



pany, whose officers are such well-known 
financiers as John Byrne, John D. Crim- 
mins, Daniel O'Day, Thomas F. Ryan, 
Adrian Iselin, Jr., of New York, and 
]\Iartin Maloney, of Philadelphia, is en- 
gaged in developing this property. A 
comprehensive topographical survey and 
complete plan have been made by the 
eminent engineer 
and sanitary ex- 
pert. Col. George 
E. Waring, Jr. It 
is in contempla- 
tion to provide 
for about one 
thousand sum- 
mer cottages. 

A perfect sys- 
tem of sewage, 
water supply, 
and lighting has 
been planned. 
The grounds have 
been s\'stematic- 
allylaidout in the 
most attractive 
manner by means of winding roads, and 
the preservation of the stately forest 
groves, natural elevations, and particu- 
larly pleasing trees. A deep and pictur- 
esque ravine, traversinga bout one-third 
of the property, running almost west and 
east, and carrying a crystal brook in its 
bed, affords a delightful landscape effect; 
while the thickly wooded bluff, with its 
delightful glades and sheltered nooks, 
overlooking the waters of the majestic 
Champlain, and the tree-covered border 
of the lake itself, with meandering" syl- 




idiug views of the most niiignillcent expanse ol the lake «uii lU 
lieauliful islands.'* 

van paths, affording charming surprises 
and many varying views of the shimmer- 
ing water and distant mountains, form 
two natural rambles over half a mile in 
length, calculated to delight the tourist's 
eve and lure him into their leafy shades. 
R'ustic chairs and tables, and pretty sum- 
mer houses perched on rugged bluff or 
on grassy knoll, increase the comfort of 
visitors. 



There has been erected a handsome John Lafarge, LL.D., Rev. J. A. Zahm, 



Assembly and Administration Building, 
which serves as a club house for the 
Board of Trustees and the honorary 



Ph.D., C. S. C, Notre Dame University, 
Henry Austin Adams, A.M., Rev. Hermann 
Heuser, St. Charles' Seminary, Rev. 
W. H. O'Connell, Brother Bald- 
win, Rev. J. A. Doonan.S. J., Rev. 
Henrv G. Ganss, Lawrence D. 
Flick^M.D., Rev. D. J. O'Sullivan. 




" Wlieie the scenery is rugged and the cliffs severe." 

members of the Association, and will 
give luncheon accommodations to cot- 
tagers and visitors. 

The Summer School affords an ideal 
place for a summer vacation. Its loca- 
tion is superb. It is easily accessible 
from New York and from the principal 
large cities. It affords every oppor- 
tunity for rest and healthful recrea- 
tion of all kinds — boating, fishing, bath- 
ing, walking, riding, driving, mountain 
climbing. Besides thus enabling one to 
pass a vacation in otio cum dig. , it will keep 
his imagination and mind pleasantly oc- 
cupied. The Rev. Thos. J. Conaty, D.D., 
of Worcester, Mass., is President, the 
Rev. F. P. Siegfried, of Philadelphia, 
Chairman of the Board of Studies, and 
the Chairman of the Executive Com- 
mittee is the Hon. John B. Rilev, Platts- 
burg, N. Y. 

The session of 1895 will open with Pon- 
tifical Mass, on July 7, Archbishop SatoUi 
celebrant, and the sermon delivered by 
Archbishop Corrigan. The courses will 
include ecclesias- 
tical history, lit- 
erature, science 
and art. The lec- 
turers are Very 
Rev. John. B.Ho- 
gan, S.S., D.D., 
Rev. J. F. Lough- 
lin, D.D., George 
Parsons Lathrop, 
LL.D., Rev. T. J. 
A. Freeman, S. J., 
Conde B. Fallen, 
Ph.D., Richard 
Malcolm John- 
ston, L L . D., 



Besides Archbishop Corrigan the other 
preachers of the session will be Most 
Rev. P. J. Ryan, D.D., Archbishop of 
Philadelphia, Rt. Rev. Thomas D. Bea- 
ven, D.D., Bishop of Springfield, Mass., 
Rt. Rev. T. S. Byrne, D.D., Bishop of 
Nashville, Tenn., Rev. P. J. Garrigan, 
D.D., Vice-Rector Catholic L^niversity 
of America, Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, 
D.D., Rev. Clarence E. Woodman, Ph.D., 
C.S.P., Rev. J. Coyle, Rev. J. M. Whe- 
lan,Very Rev. J. F. Mooney. D.D., V.G., 
New York., Rev. 
J. L. Belford. 
More detailed 
information may 
be obtained by 
addressing War- 
ren E. M o s H- 
E R , Secretary, 
123 E. 50th St., 
New York City. 




Wide stretches o£ pebbly beuch, where the. waves lap caressingly. 



'im 



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Plattsburg, three miles beyond Bluff Point, is the 
terminal point of the steamers which run from Fort 
Ticonderoga. It is a beautiful little city of eight or 
ten thousand inhabitants, a county-seat, and is attrac- 
tively located on the shore of Lake Champlain just 
where the Saranao River empties into it. The views 
which are given convey some impiession of the at- 
tractive features of Plattsburg. Among its fine 
buildings are the United States Custom House and 
I^ost Office, St. Peter's Church, and a quaint old 

French nunnery. South of 
the town a mile is the United 
States Barracks. 

Plattsburg is con- 
nected with the early 
history of the country 
as being the place 
where Macdonough and 
Macomb defeated the 
British naval and land 




forces under Commodore 
Downie and Sir George 
Provost. The American 
navy on Lake Champlain 
consisted at that time of 
the men - of - war Sara- 
toga, Eagle, Ticonderoga, 
and Preble, carrying from 
7 to 26 guns, and a dozen 
smaller gunboats. The Brit- 
ish fleet consisted of the Confiance, carrying 
38 guns, the Linnet, Chub, and Finch, and 1 2 
smaller gunboats. As the first gun was fired 
from the British fleet. Gen. Provost with 
14,000 troops assaulted the town of Platts- 
burg, which was garrisoned by 3,000 men 
under Gen. Macomb. The fight was a stub- 
born one on land and lake, and the Britisli 
were finally repulsed with a loss of abou; 



2, 500 men and an immense amount of bag- 
gage and ammunition, while the Ameri- 
can force lost less than 150. The British 
Commodore Downie was killed early in 
the fight, and the American Commodore 
Macdonough was crushed to the deck of 
his vessel by a falling boom which had 
been cut off by a cannon-ball. A number 
of the infantry killed in this battle are 
buried in the Plattsburg Cemetery, while 
the men of the fleets who were killed are 
buried on Crab Island. 




"The Wituerill House is delightfully eiiihowcrtU iii trees." 

The tourist stopping at Plattsburg will 
find in the Witherill Hotel an exception- 
ally comfortable and well - appointed 
house, excellently kept and attractively 
furnished. It is centrally located in the 
most delightftil part of Plattsburg, and is 
a popular rendezvous for tourists going 
in or out of the Adirondacks. 

Rouse's Point, the next important place 
■on the lake above Plattsburg, marks the 
Canadian territory. It is a brisk little 
village of 1,500 inhabitants at the mouth 
of the Richelieu River — through which 
the explorer, Champlain, came in his ca- 
noe when he first gazed upon the lake 
which has ever since borne his name and 
which to-day alone perpetuates it. Fort 
Montgomery, one mile north of the place, 
commands the Richelieu River with 164 
guns. 

An unfortunate mistake was made 
in the location of this fort, and after a 
large amount of money was spent it was 
found to be built on British territory 
and was abandoned; it was given the 
ironical name of Fort Blunder. Subse- 
quently, however, a change in the boun- 
dary line gave the land to the United 
States, and the fort was completed at the 
expense of over half a million of dollars. 



If the tourist seeks the best grounds for 
fishing he will find them among the 
islands in the northern end of the lake. 
Here bass and pickerel abound, and here 
are the sites of many camping parties. 
From these islands delightful views are 
obtained of the Green Mountains, from 
Jay Peak at the north to the dim outlines 
of Mount Mansfield on the south. St. 
Albans appears on the distant hillside. 
All about are islands too rocky for camp- 
ing purposes — having such titles as Dia- 
dama, Hen, Old Woman, and Pop Squash 
— while a little farther up the shore we 
are soothed with Balm of Gilead Point. 
Close by, and strung along the shore, is 
" the city" — the only cluster of buildings 
on all of the fifty or more islands in the 
lake — and looking very like " the Hud- 
dle" at Lake George. 

The passage through the Gut is only a 
mile or so in length, but everj^ rod of it 
shows new phases of island beauty. 
Bow-Arrow Point, at the southern end of 
North Hero, well bears out its title. 
Outside the passage, and between The 
Sisters and South Hero, a glorious view 
of the Adirondacks bursts upon one in all 
the majesty of its unequalled gi'andeur. 

The Champlain Transportation Com- 
pany, which operates the beautiful 
steamers on Lake Champlain, is one of 
the best-equipped steamship companies 
in America. The Vermont and the 
Chateaiigay make daily round trips in 
connection with the trains of the Dela- 
ware and Hudson Railroad. These 
steamers are large, modern, and of suffi- 
ciently heavy burden to accommodate 
one thousand people. It is beyond ques- 
tion that upon no inland lake in the world 




i t 



•■ Here liass and pickerel abound and alford rare sport." 

is the passenger service more promptly 
attended to or the tourists more satis- 
factorily cared for than upon the steam- 
ers of this line. 



" The Rhine, the St. Lawrence, and 
the Hudson," said Bayard Taylor, "are 
the three most beautiful rivers of the 




■ la olden days tht- rapKl 



t 111 Ijouts, now in stately steamers 



world," and while each has its individual 
charms, the St. Lawrence in man)' ways 
is entitled to the place of honor. The 
Richelieu and Ontario 
Navigation Company 
has made it possible, 
by placing in service a 
fleet of palatial steam- 
boats, for the tourist to 
enjoy every portion of 
it, and in addition he 
ma^' go far up its chief 
tributary, the world-re- 
nowned Saguenay, the 
natural grandeur of 
whose scenery no pen 
has yet adequately por- 
trayed. The route of 
the steamers from 
their western ter- 
minus takes one 
through the Thou- 
sand Islands, af- 
fording panoramic 
views of this nat- 
ural paradise of 
water and verdure, 
as the steamer 
threads its way 
amid the laby- 
rinth of islands, 
more than 1,700 in 
number. After the 
noble river has ex- 
tricted itself from 
the islands, it be- 
gins to increase its 
current, and final- 
ly with turbulent 



lashing plunges down the famous Lach- 
ine rapids. The trip through these ra- 
pids is an exhilarating experience never 
to be forgotten. While there 
is the maximum of excite- 
ment, there is the minimum 
of danger, though the experi- 
ence is often trying to the 
iK-rves, especially when the 
steamboat makes a lurch in 
■ ic chaotic waters and a vol- 
ume of spray is dashed in the 
I aces of the thrilled voyagers. 
To the eastward of Montreal 
and Quebec, both of which 
cities are reached by the boats 
n\ the Richelieu and Ontario, 
the journey by river is none 
lie less interesting. The 
steamers touch at Riviere du 
Loup, near the famous water- 
ing-place Cacouna, and then 
crossing the river, which is 
here about twenty miles wide, stop at 
Tadousac before beginning the ascent 
of the Saguenay. 




• The Grand Discharge on Lake St. John is fascinating to all who see it.' 



The commercial metropolis of Canada, 
Montreal, occupies a magnificent posi- 
tion, facing the broad St. Lawrence on 
the one side and receding 
toward the beautiful Mt. 
Royal on the other, upon 
the summit and sides of 
which is the lovely Moun- 
tain Park, which has added 
much to Montreal's fair 
fame. Tlie view from the 
summit of this mountain, 
which is reached bv broad 




" Montreal with its tree embowered squares and 
evidences of prosperity." 

roads over easy grades, is one of the most 
sublime of any of this continent. 

Far below and spreading out upon all 
sides, in grand and solid proportions, 
with broad -paved avenues, maple- 
adorned streets, brilliant squares, open 
parks, hundreds of spires, cupolas, and 
domes, and high above all, rising con- 
spicuously, the huge tow- 
ers of Notre Dame and the 
colossal form of St. Peter's, 
one may behold the Mon- 
treal of to-day. Montreal 
with its wealth and its 
poverty, its grandeur and 
its beauty, its wonderful 
paintings, its museums, 
galleries, and libraries; its 
vast warehouses, its rush 
and noise ; yet not a sound 
ascending from its life- 
filled streets. A\vay to 
the right is to be seen 
the famed canal and the 
world -renowned rapids. 
Lower down, stretched 
across the i)road St. Law- 
rence, the Victoria Bridge 
flings its huge proportions, 
its diminishing tail touch- 
ing the shore at St. Lam- 
bert and its monster head swallowing up 
a train that rushes from St. Cunegonde 
into its iron jaws. 



The city of Montreal has a full comple- 
ment of hotels ; but the Balmoral on Notre 
Dame Street, one block from Victoria 

Square and five 
miniates' walk 
from the steam- 
boat and rail- 
way stations, 
will be found 
a t h o r o u g h- 
1 }• enjoyable 
hotel home. 
.Messrs. E. 
H. Dtmham & 
Company, the 
p r opr i etors, 
are well known 
as thoroughly 
alert and alive 
to the require- 
ments oi the better class of the travelling 
public. S75,ooo has recently been spent 
on the Balmoral, and it is now as com- 
plete, well-furnished and cheerful a house 
as there is in Canada. The extensive 
corridors and drawing-rooms of the Bal- 
moral make the house especially desir- 
able for ladies and children, and its 
location makes it peculiarly well adapted 
for visitors who desire to view the many 
and delightful points of interest in Mon- 
treal. Electric cars of every line in 
Montreal pass the hotel door, and for 
this very reason it is a convenient house 
at which to make headquarters. Tourist 
parties may secure accommodations in 







! Balmoral Hotel at .Montreal makes a specialty of 
pleasing tourists." 

advance by telegraph, and will receive 
every consideration. The Balmoral is 
conducted on the American plan. 




In quaint, delightful, and moss-covered old 
Quebec, so rich in historical associations and 
fascinating traditions of dead and gone heroes, 
English, French, and aborig- 
inal, there is so much of 
interest to see and hear that 
if the tourist's sojourn within 
its gates — in this case the 
gates are actual — is to be of 
short duration, he must be up 
and doing, or going, earh' and 
late, for there is 
a wealth of histor- 
ical and legendary 
facts and fancies 
from which to 
glean. Quebec is 
unique, first, in 
that it has been 
the scene of more 
war and strife than 
any other city on 
the western conti- 
nent, and again 
because of its im- 
pressive location. Here have 
transpired a long succession 
of events in which the vital interests of 
great nations were involved, supremacy 
being attained onh' by fierce and terrible 
battle. The natural splendor of the city's 
surroundings could scarcely be excelled. 
It is truly a " city set upon a hill," standing 
guard over the entrance to the great in- 
land waters of the continent ; 
the fortress-crowned rock 
with its grim armament 
which overlooks the 
river and the Lower 




Town has earned 
for it the title of 
the American Gib- 
raltar. 

On the banks of 
the St. Lawrence, 



"In quaint. diliK'iIful. and moss-covered yuiljee 
there is much to see.'" 

where Quebec now sits in her beauty and 
majesty, there stood three hundred and 
fifty-nine years ago a small Indian vil- 
lage. Here it was that Cartier anchored 
his fleet about 1536, and claimed it, and 
whatever else there may have 
been thereabouts, as the pos- 
session of the King of 
France. He did nothing, 
however, toward building 
up a settlement, and it 
was not until 1608, when 
Champlain arrived and es- 
tablished French owner- 
ship, that it began to grow 
to make history. For some 
time thereafter Cham- 
plain practically reigned 
as King of the St. Law- 
rence and exercised an 
absolute sovereignty 
over the territory from 
the Gulf of Mexico to 
Canada. 

The Plains of Abra- 
ham, a table-land on the 
-nmmit of the heights 
< n\ the north bank of the 
St. Lawrence, were 
thought to have been 
too precipitous to be 
reached by an enemy. 
But historv tells us how 




" The city gates of Quebec are not fanciful but real." 

the plain was reached and was the scene 
of the desperate and terrific battle which 
decided the possession of Canada. It 
was on that fateful day that Wolfe died at 
the very moment of his victory, and 
Montcalm received mortal wounds. A 
monument to Wolfe's valiant leadership 
has been erected here, and in the Gov- 
ernor's Garden is a dual-faced monu- 
ment, raised in 1827 to the joint honor of 
these two heroes, and bearing the in- 
scription " Valor gave a common death, 
history a common fame, and posterity a 
common monument." On the plains, 
reached by a picturesque old stairway 
from the Lower Town, are three towers, 
erected in 18 12 for the citv's defence. 




The Cita- 
del has 
the most 
command- 
ing p o s i- 
tion in the 
li city, being 



303 feet above the water, and is said 
to contain arms sufficient to equip 
20,000 inen. 

The gates of the city are three in 
niimber and stand at its western 
approach. St. John's gate is, how- 
ever, the only one of the three that 
is at all ancient. The foundation- 
stone of the Kent gate was laid by 
the Princess Louise while residing- 
in Canada when her husband, the 
Marquis of Lome, was Governor- 
General. The gate is named in 
honor of the father of Queen Vic- 
toria, who at one time was in com- 
mand of the British forces in Can- 
ada. The third gate, the St. Louis, 
is near the Government buildings. 

One of the most delightful places 
at Ouebec for the tourist to make his 




'\ 



"Due of tlie delightful places for the tourist to stop 
at is the Florence." 

home for a longer or shorter period is 
the Hotel Florence, a picture of which is 
presented on this page. The location of 
the Florence is one of the most attractive, 
from a natural standpoint, in the quaint 
old city in which it is so prominent and 
popular. There is to be had from its 
balcony a wide-stretching and beautiful 
panoi'amic view of the St. Lawrence 
River and the city. This view, w-hich 
includes not only the beautiful Falls of 
Montmorency, the Laurentian Range of 
mountains, and the lovely valley of the 
St. Charles, is not surpassed even from 
the renowned Dufiferin Terrace. The lo- 
cation of the Florence is very convenient 
to all the prominent places of interest, 
and street-cars reaching every portion of 
the city pass the door every five minutes. 
The interior finishings and furnishings 
of the Florence are new and elegant, 
and thoroughly in keeping with the gen- 
eral excellence and reputation of the 
house. The markets of Quebec are 
famous for the great variety of sea-foods 
and vegetables, and the table of the 



i-in ) plunges 250 feet into the 
chasm below." 



Florence offers a most excellent oppor- 
tunity to test the high reputation of these 
delicacies, as the cuisine \<. up to the high- 
est standard. The house is lighted with 
electricity, every room being supplied, 
and there are on each floor iron balconies 
and iron doors, thus insuring perfect 
safety. Mr. Benjamin Trudel presides 
over the Florence 
as both proprietor 
and manager, and 
also over the new 
and modern Vic- 
toria, one of the 
finest hotels in 
Canada. The 
tourist stopping 
at either of these 
delightful houses 
will be well 
pleased. 

The tourist froni 
the United States 
who visits Quebec without taking the 
trip up the wonderful Saguenay River is 
turning away from, at its very threshold, 
the most magnificent scenery — the Yel- 
lowstone and Yosemite of Canada com- 
bined. Who can paint in words or on 
canvass the glories of the Saguenay ! 
What pen has ever conveyed anything 
but faintest impression of the yawning 
and awful majesty of Cape Eternity, that 
tremendous cliff i , 500 feet in height, or its 
neighbor. Cape Trinity, showing its three 
distinct heads both vertical and lateral! 
The entire trip of the Saguenay River, 
from Tadousac, where it joins the St. 
Lawrence, to Chicoutiini, fascinates and 
overawes one. Mr. W. H. H. Murray, in 
describing it, says: "It is a monstrous 
cleft opened by earthquake violence for 
sixty miles through a landscape of moun- 
tains formed of primeval rocks. In old 
time a shock which shook the world 
burst the Laurentian range asunder at 
its St. Lawrence line, where Tadousac 
now is, and opened up a chasm, two 





1- a I Kiibervalon LakeSt. John a hamlsoine hotel. 



•il di.' f.uritrsl iiiiprrhsi..ii ..r tin- 
lid Kteriiity on the Saguenay Hiveri 

miles across, two thousand feet in depth, 
and sixty miles in length, straight north- 
ward. Thus was the Saguenay born." 
The beautiful steamers of the Richelieu 
and Ontario Navigation Company are 
modern and commodious, and the comforts 
and luxuries of travel are provided upon 
them. There are along the route several 
interesting little towns, and ever}^ portion 
of the distance has its peculiar charms. 
At Chicoutimi connection is made with 
the Quebec and Lake St. John Railroad 
for Roberval on Lake St. John, which is 
the source of the Saguenay, and one of the 
most delightful lakes to visit on the 
American Continent. It has become in 
recent years the Mecca of the tourist, 
sportsman, and woodsman. The main 
line of the Quebec and Lake St. John 
Railroad is between Quebec and Lake St. 
John and the distance is but one hundred 
and ninety miles, and through an interest- 
ing region of mountain fastnesses, yawn- 
ing chasms, and natural parks. 

Some appreciation of the great beauty 
and magnitude of this region may be 
n in the statement that there are 
in the confines of the Triton Fishing 
Gun Club reservation more than 200 
lakes of a mile, or o^-er, long, with 
a myriad connecting streams, all 
abounding in trout, salmon, and 
ouananiche, the great fighter of the 
north. Tourists are enabled to make 
the round trip from Quebec, going 
to Lake St. John by water, over the 
, St. Lawrence and Saguenay rivers, 
V and returning by rail, or vice versa. 
At Lake St. John, one is sur- 



prised to find, in the Roberval, situated 
on the western shore of the lake, a splen- 
did modern hotel large enough to accom- 
modate three hundred guests, equipped 
with everything that the most fastidious 
could desire for physical com- 
fort and well-being. The interior ; 
furnishings are new, and very 
great taste has been exercised in 
their selection. The house has 
all such modernisms as electric 
lights and bells, and is supplied 
with every facility for indoor 
amusement, such as billiards, 
bowling, dancing, etc. The 
grounds surrounding it are bril- 
liantly lighted by electricity at 
night, and, in addition to the 
splendid boating, fishing and 
driving, there are beautiful 
tennis courts. The views af- 
forded of Lake St. John from 
the windows of this house are 
exceedingly beautiful. The 
earliest ouananiche fishing is 
to be had immediately in front 
of the Roberval, usually about 
the first week in June, whije the 
most exciting sport with this 
gamiest of fresh-water fish is to 
be had between the first week in 
July and the middle of Septem- 
ber. The Island House, under 
the same management, situated 
on an island of the Grand Dis- 
charge, and reached in about tw > 
hours by steamer from the Rob- 
erval, is a most comfortable hotel 
and much sought by those who 
wish to fish from canoes. Here 
the ouananiche is to be found 
in shoals, waiting to spring on 
his favorite fly as soon as it 
is afloat, and the Canadian zvn- 
ageiirs will paddle one about 
very skilfully amid the danger- 
ous rocks and whirling eddies. 



The proprietors of the Roberval and 
Island House have the exclusive fishing 
rights of Lake St. John and its tribu- 
taries. These waters, however, are free 
to the Q-uests at these hotels. 




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' The hurrying watei's of thu laglitniiif; ]{iv 



" The iiiaguiiictiit upectacle of Ouiatohouan FalKs, hijfher by a 
hundred feet than Niagara." 

The pleasures of camping in this region need 
no recommendation to those who have once tried 
them. There are from fifteen to twenty rotites 
mapped out, which were unknown to white 
men up to three or four years ago. The in- 
land streams and lakes northward that 
form such enjoyable links in the chain of 
these tours abound with trout, their 
waters having scarcely ever been invaded 
by civilized fishermen. Large game of 
ail kinds is plentiful. 

This territory forms the northernmost 
limits of " A Summer Paradise." 



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